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Augustin Dumont, « Fichte and the Kantian radical evil. An unfinished “Auseinandersetzung” », Archives de Philosophie, ID : 10670/1.3bff94...
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This paper aims to question the way Fichte reappropriates the Kantian theme of radical evil. It is generally accepted that only Schelling strives to inherit such a theme, even though the concept of evil is designed to fit into a very specific ontological framework. I try to show that, far from going back to the “philanthropism” of the Enlightenment, Fichte takes the enigma of radical evil very seriously. To this end, the paper offers a careful reading of § 16 of the Sittenlehre. I demonstrate that the core of our capacity to commit evil lies in the inner conviction that the law of autonomy is nothing more than the subject’s own will. I show that it is the subject’s free choice to believe so.
