RT journal article
T1 The paradoxes of Enlightenment. A rhetorical and anthropological approach to Kant’s Beantwortung
A1 González Fisac, Jesús
A2 HistoriaGeografía y Filosofía
K1 Kant
K1 philosophy of Enligthenment
K1 paradoxes
K1 heautocracy
K1 private/public use of reason
AB This paper consists of two parts. In the first part (section 1), I shallexpound the kantian concept of paradox and its three different senses, theanthropological, the rhetorical and the metaphysical. In the second part (sections2-6), I shall examine the presence of these senses of paradox in Kant’s textsabout Enlightenment (with special attention on the Beantwortung). The paradoxof immaturity consists of the fact that we are responsible, as human beings, andnon-responsible, as subjects of a State, of the exit from it. Another formulationof the same paradox, but in dynamical and metaphysical terms (which willspecifically occupy section 3), is that of heautocracy, the paradox of selfconstraint,which implies that the subject is at the same time active and passive.Finally, the opposition between public and private use of reason also seemsparadoxical, since private use seems to be a prejudiced use (and it is not,actually) while public use seems to be free and reasonable as such (although thefreedom implied in Enlightenment is only methodical and is subject to rules).
SN 1518-403X
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30234
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30234
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026