@article{Lo Re_2020, title={Publicly Committed to the Good: The State of Nature and the Civil Condition in Right and in Ethics}, volume={17}, url={https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/1569}, DOI={10.33392/diam.1569}, abstractNote={<p>In <em>Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kant speaks of an ethical state of nature and of an ethico-civil condition, with explicit reference to the juridical state of nature and the juridico-civil condition he discusses at length in his legal-political writings. Given that the <em>Religion</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the only work where Kant introduces a parallel between these concepts, one might think that this is only a loose analogy, serving a merely illustrative function. The paper provides a first outline of the similarities and the differences between the state of nature and the civil condition in Right and in ethics. The comparison points to a deeper, structural relation between the two pairs of concepts. By doing so, it makes room for developing a unitary conception of the state of nature and of the civil condition, which would underlie both the ethical and the juridical version.</p>}, number={65}, journal={Diametros}, author={Lo Re, Stefano}, year={2020}, month={Aug.}, pages={56–76} }