Sul fondamento, ovvero il non-luogo della comunità politica

Abstract

The lecture intends to face the question about the ground of political community in Kant, discussing mainly the concept of place. In order to accomplish this task, we’ll cover synthetically the effective inquiry about this question in the kantian works’ corpus, namely, the place or the places of this research. Such a path intends to analyse the subject of the ground of political community, that is, of politics in a large sense, which has a paradigmatical context of development in the Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, which position inside the kantian “system” has often been misunderstood and undervalued. We’ll analyse in this work especially the concept of the kingdom of ends [Reich der Zwecke]. Through an analytical exam of the terminological and conceptual elements that make it up, we expect to frame this notion as an accomplished ground of political community, which goes beyond every physical place and simultaneously opens every possible moral field, as field of both ethical and juridical regulation, and grounds every possible political action that doesn’t try to escape of the pure practical reason’s imperative.