(Re-)Publicity. Kant’s Late Extension of Transcendentality to Law and Politics

Cari Colleghi, 

abbiamo il piacere di annunciare che la quarta sessione del Seminario Permanente di Filosofia Trascendentale (a.a. 2023/2024) si terrà mercoledì 6 dicembre p. v. alle 11:30. Il relatore sarà il Prof. Dr. Günter Zöller (LMU München). In allegato la locandina dell’evento. 

Il prof. Zöller sarà collegato in diretta da Monaco, ma presso la nostra Università è stata allestita un’aula apposita per seguire al sua lezione. Per quanti siano interessati a partecipare in presenza, ecco le informazioni: 

Aula G.130 S. Maria, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli 1, Milano. 

Per quanti invece intendessero partecipare on-line, ecco il link di Teams (che si trova anche in basso a sinistra nella locandina allegata):  

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NGQ3Y2RiYTctYWYyMS00M2FlLWIzOGMtMzM0NWI1ZDg0NmY5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b94f7d74-81ff-44a9-b588-6682acc85779%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2278083738-c72e-4b45-afff-9a8cd03728c5%22%7d

Allego inoltre un handout, che aiuterà a seguire la lezione del Professore. 

Qui di seguito titolo e abstract: 

(Re-)Publicity. Kant’s Late Extension of Transcendentality to Law and Politics 

Günter Zöller (University of Munich; zoeller@lmu.de )  

“Est igitur […] res publica res populi […].” (Cicero, De re publica, 1.39) 

Abstract 

The talk presents, analyses and assesses the extension of Kant’s transcendental project to his late work in the philosophy of law and political philosophy, as chiefly contained in Toward Perpetual Peace (1795) and The Metaphysics of Morals (1797). The focus is on the transcendental features of Kant’s juridico-political thinking in general and on the transcendental status of the juridico-political principle of publicity (Öffentlichkeit) in particular. The talk argues for the conceptual and methodological distinction between the discipline of transcendental philosophy, which coincides with critically grounded pure theoretical philosophy, and the discipline of practical philosophy, which coincides with the critically grounded philosophy of ethics, law and politics. 

The extension of transcendental features to Kant’s juridico-political philosophy is shown to amount, not to transcendental practical philosophy, but to the introduction of basic transcendental traits (‘transcendentalism’) into a discipline that is not suited for being formally included in transcendental philosophy. 

Contatto: gualtiero.lorini@unicatt.it