Name: Fabricio Silva de Almeida
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 08/03/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| José Pedro Luchi | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner | Advisor * |
| Jorge Vanderlei Costa da Conceição | External Examiner * |
| José Renato Salatiel | Internal Alternate * |
| Marco Rampazzo Bazzan | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The aim of this study is to investigate the argumentative conditions that make it possible to
speak of an ethical community in Kant`s thought. Starting from the recognition of radical evil
and its social unfolding in terms of an ethical state of nature, Kant postulates as a duty the
establishment of a union of men under laws of virtue. However, how to think about an ethical
community if, at first, the concepts that make it possible seem to have only subjective
validity? How can that which is subjective gain the contours of universality that the ethical
community demands? This is because, for the idea of a union of men under laws of virtue to
be possible, it is necessary to understand how rational faith or moral faith, possessing only
subjective validity, opens itself to the communicability of the concept of God. To solve this
problem, the study starts from three practical experiences as a condition criterion for the
realization of the ethical community, namely, the non-sensitive reciprocal coercion that makes
the public legislation of the community possible, the idea of God as a necessary postulate in
view of the reality objective of the law and, finally, the relationship between the invisible and
visible churches under the aegis of the concept of agreement.
Keywords: Religion, Ethical community, Postulate, God.
