A Beginner at Social Ontology

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Kant thought the sociable/unsociable naturally creative tension toward the greatest possible unity a worthwhile focus:

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“…All the culture and art which adorn [personkind] and the finest social order [personkind] creates are fruits of [our] unsociability. For it is compelled by [our] own nature to discipline itself, and thus, by enforced art, to develop completely the germs which nature implanted,” (Idea 46).

Kant, Immanuel. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose. (1784) KANT Political Writings, ed. Reiss, Hans, transl. Nisbet, H.B., Cambridge University Press.

There’s a tug of war between sociability (gathering) & unsociability (distance) in order to sharpen the greatest possible unity between reasoning persons… that requires we get creative…

See also:

Kant on going global (1784)

Kant requires three factors to become an authority who can establish a perfect civil constitution: “a correct conception of the nature of a possible constitution, great experience tested in many affairs of the world, and above all else a good will prepared to accept the findings of this experience,” (Idea, 47) Kant, Immanuel. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose. (1784) KANT Political Writings, ed. Reiss, Hans, transl. Nisbet, H.B., Cambridge University Press.

And:

Kant doing Hegel/Nietzsche B4 it wuz kewl ;)

Kant points out in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose that free actions are only possible within the natural order, and that everything in nature has a function it brings to fruition through revolutions of antagonism between “actions and counter-actions” that either occur and persist randomly without reason, or are finely tuned to occur, or will eventually fall into a “hell of evils” (Kant, Idea 48). For Kant, the transcendental purpose for personkind, as distinct from the …