Experience and Political Action in Kant: Between Cynicism and Moral Significance.
By holding that the anthropological condition of unsociable sociability forms the sinew of Kant's conception of political action, this essay distinguishes the relationship between experience and political agency from that between experience and moral agency. It argues that the former cannot be fully...
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Vilnius University
2025
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