教員情報

タナカ　ミキコ   TANAKA MIKIKO   田中　美紀子    所属   文学部 教育学科    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2013/12
形態種別	論文
招待論文	招待あり
標題	"Instinct, that voice of God" Rousseau's influence on Kant's interpretation of the Genesis
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	Estudos Kantianos
出版社・発行元	UNESP
巻・号・頁	1(2),pp.184-193
概要	In my paper I investigate Rousseau's influence on Kant's interpretation of the Genesis and his philosophy of history. In his essay Conjectural Beginning of Human History Kant interpreted the Genesis from the perspective of the conflict between natural instinct and human reason, i.e. the conflict between the theological doctrine and his philosophy of reason. Opposing Rousseau's opinion that man is entirely satisfied with living according to natural instinct, Kant claims that reason should overcome instinct, which he considers to be the "voice of God". Man, therefore, should step out of the state of nature (the Garden of Eden) by his own reason, as Kant regards the release from the rule of instinct and the transition to the guidance of reason as the beginning of human moral history.