Subjective universality of great novelists as an artistic measure of history's advance towards actualising Kant's vision of freedom
Апстракт
The main idea behind this article is that in order to understand the meaning that Kant's political philosophy is rendered to by the given socio-historical context of a community we need to turn for help to artistic genius whose subjective "I" holds a general feeling of the world and life. It is in this sense that authors of great novels can help us in two ways. First, their works summarise for our imagination artistic truth about man's capacity for humanity, the very thing that Kant considers to be the scientifically improvable "fact of reason'. Second, works of great writers offer for our insight destinies of individuals who decide to pursue moral dictate in a society, thus actualising the potential that lies hidden in all of us, making us worthy of respect. As we lack objective scientific standard of measurement, artist's universal feeling of the world is impressed upon us through a narrative about a man who, in a given society and in a given moment, decides to exercise his autonomy ...and seek the divine in himself. Contemporary social scientists' attempts to prove historical progress is characterised by the very lack of humbleness. Referring to the great novelists' works in this article is aimed to remind scientists of restraint and self-control demanded from them by the citizen of Konigsberg.
Кључне речи:
Kant / novel / freedom / peace / Tolstoy / genius / science / progress / historyИзвор:
Filozofija i društvo, 2018, 29, 4, 567-585Издавач:
- Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd
DOI: 10.2298/FID1804567K
ISSN: 0353-5738
WoS: 000454407000008
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85059052069
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FPNTY - JOUR AU - Kovačević, Bojan AU - Kovačević, Bojan PY - 2018 UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/666 AB - The main idea behind this article is that in order to understand the meaning that Kant's political philosophy is rendered to by the given socio-historical context of a community we need to turn for help to artistic genius whose subjective "I" holds a general feeling of the world and life. It is in this sense that authors of great novels can help us in two ways. First, their works summarise for our imagination artistic truth about man's capacity for humanity, the very thing that Kant considers to be the scientifically improvable "fact of reason'. Second, works of great writers offer for our insight destinies of individuals who decide to pursue moral dictate in a society, thus actualising the potential that lies hidden in all of us, making us worthy of respect. As we lack objective scientific standard of measurement, artist's universal feeling of the world is impressed upon us through a narrative about a man who, in a given society and in a given moment, decides to exercise his autonomy and seek the divine in himself. Contemporary social scientists' attempts to prove historical progress is characterised by the very lack of humbleness. Referring to the great novelists' works in this article is aimed to remind scientists of restraint and self-control demanded from them by the citizen of Konigsberg. PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd T2 - Filozofija i društvo T1 - Subjective universality of great novelists as an artistic measure of history's advance towards actualising Kant's vision of freedom EP - 585 IS - 4 SP - 567 VL - 29 DO - 10.2298/FID1804567K ER -
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Kovačević, B.,& Kovačević, B.. (2018). Subjective universality of great novelists as an artistic measure of history's advance towards actualising Kant's vision of freedom. in Filozofija i društvo Univerzitet u Beogradu - Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd., 29(4), 567-585. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1804567K
Kovačević B, Kovačević B. Subjective universality of great novelists as an artistic measure of history's advance towards actualising Kant's vision of freedom. in Filozofija i društvo. 2018;29(4):567-585. doi:10.2298/FID1804567K .
Kovačević, Bojan, Kovačević, Bojan, "Subjective universality of great novelists as an artistic measure of history's advance towards actualising Kant's vision of freedom" in Filozofija i društvo, 29, no. 4 (2018):567-585, https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1804567K . .