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Kant a liberalizm
Kant and Liberalism

Author(s): Wojciech Kaute
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: Kant; liberalism; social democracy; obligation; “third way”

Summary/Abstract: The main task of the article is to analyze a socio-political aspect of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. The analysis is shown in the context of the modern, liberal critique of the Socratic-Christian paradigm. The author presents Kant’ standing as a specific attempt to reconcile the main liberal ideas: Cartesian Cogito, the idea of the free market, and the most important elements of Plato’s philosophy – the objective status of Good and Justice. The effect of this operation is an idea of the “middle way”, which stands as a fundament of classical and contemporary social democratic thought.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 283-303
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish