AUTONOMY AND LIBERTY IN AUGUSTINE AND KANT: THE PREDOMINANCE OF THE FORMALISM IN THE CONCEPT OF WILL

• Main Author: Cerqueira, Marcone Costa
• Publication Date: 2020
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Sapere Aude (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• DOI: 10.5752/P.2177-6342.2020v11n21p173-193
• Download full: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/SapereAude/article/view/21136
• topic: Kant. Augustine. Theory of Will. Liberty. Autonomy.

The aims that animates this research is to demonstrate how the theoretical construction of the aspects of the foundations of the will, perceived in a final configuration in Kantian thought, requires by way of searching for an autonomous instance of desire, disengaged of the heteronomy of the contingent, which appears first in the Christian Middle Ages construction, establishing the predominance of the formal aspect of the action over its material aspect in the ethical-political field in the West. The theoretical basis of our hypothesis is guided by the relationship between the formal (intentionality – want) and concrete (materiality – act) of political action. Such a configuration will be demonstrated from the construction of a theory of the will, which has arisen within the medieval Christianity, expanded and refined by several western authors, and your more formatting done in modern thought, in which the rational construction of formalism is your complete maturation in Kantian construct.