Politics and Terrorism of Immanuel Kant‘s Radical Evil
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Gintautas Grigonis
Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science
Published 2021-12-15
https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2021.104.3
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radical evil
moral law
Immanuel Kant
suicidal terrorism

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Grigonis, Gintautas. 2021. “Politics and Terrorism of Immanuel Kant‘s Radical Evil”. Politologija 104 (4): 62-88. https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2021.104.3.

Abstract

This article analyzes Immanuel Kant’s concept of radical evil within the broader corpus of Kant’s practical works in order to ascertain whether suicidal terrorism can be interpreted using his philosophical framework. Said analysis establishes the dynamic between radical evil and other characteristics of Kantian human nature – unsocial-sociability and propensity towards humanity, whilst focusing on the political implications of said dynamic. When analyzed utilizing the established framework of politics of radical evil, suicidal terrorism reveals the extremities of human behavior as well as potential flaws of Kantian philosophy.

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