Pluralism in the ethical community

Abstract

One of Immanuel Kant's most deeply held convictions was that human beings are by nature capable of being free, able to determine what they ought to be as human beings: responsible persons among persons. Kant develops the dilemma in his account of radical evil. For every moment of her life, a person ascertains that she wills evil without being able to explain this through appeal to a free decision in the past between the will for good or for evil. For each human being possesses three original predispositions that belong to the very possibility of such a being, namely the predispositions to animality, humanity, and personality. Kant's discussion of evil arises from his conception of freedom. The reality of freedom justifies the author's rational hope in the existence of God who makes it possible for persons to overcome their being evil by nature and orient themselves toward the good.

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