TY - JOUR AU - Lo Re, Stefano PY - 2020/08/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Publicly Committed to the Good: The State of Nature and the Civil Condition in Right and in Ethics JF - Diametros JA - Diametros VL - 17 IS - 65 SE - Articles DO - 10.33392/diam.1569 UR - https://diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/article/view/1569 SP - 56-76 AB - <p>In <em>Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason</em><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Kant speaks of an ethical state of nature and of&nbsp;an ethico-civil condition, with explicit reference to the juridical state of nature and the juridico-civil&nbsp;condition he discusses at length in his legal-political writings. Given that the <em>Religion</em><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>is the only work&nbsp;where Kant introduces a parallel between these concepts, one might think that this is only a loose&nbsp;analogy, serving a merely illustrative function. The paper provides a first outline of the similarities&nbsp;and the differences between the state of nature and the civil condition in Right and in ethics. The&nbsp;comparison points to a deeper, structural relation between the two pairs of concepts. By doing so,&nbsp;it makes room for developing a unitary conception of the state of nature and of the civil condition,&nbsp;which would underlie both the ethical and the juridical version.</p> ER -