TITLE:
Dilemma and Rebirth: How Marx’s View of Practice Overcomes Kant’s Dilemma of Freedom
AUTHORS:
Chang He
KEYWORDS:
Practical Freedom, the Existence of God, Realistic Turn, Kant, Marxism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.11 No.3,
July
28,
2021
ABSTRACT: For
laying the foundation for human knowledge, Kant distinguished the ontological
world from the phenomenal world. Kant put freedom in the ontological world to
make its existence possible, and relied on the moral practice according to the
pure rational. By criticizing God, Kant established reason as a relative absolutist that human beings can trace
back to. However, in the path of freedom realization, he re-quoted
God as a secular arbiter for the need of his system. The deviation of “God
being” in Critique of pure reason and critique of practical reason exposes the
difficult problem of Kant’s realization of freedom that perceptual beings
cannot realize freedom. Marx’s view of freedom experienced two turns and
finally came into reality. Based on the realistic, Marx sought the realistic
path to realize freedom by enriching the connotation of practice, and completed
the redemption of Kant’s dilemma.