Political Return of Metaphysics
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Alvydas Jokubaitis
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Published 2025-05-20
https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2025.118.1
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Kant
metaphisics
politics
philosophy of history
aesthetics

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Jokubaitis, Alvydas. 2025. “Political Return of Metaphysics”. Politologija 118 (2): 8-22. https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2025.118.1.

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to prove that metaphysics which was criticized by Immanuel Kant in his philosophy returned by way of politics. His philosophy of history reintroduces what he rejected as faulty metaphysics. What Kant speaks about history can be applied to politics. Metaphysics, which was expelled in the Critique of Pure Reason and provided with a novel explanation in the Critique of Practical Reason, returned in the Critique of Judgement under new guises and with old contradictions. By rejecting metaphysical speculations Kant opened the way for political speculations.

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