Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Zohreh Saeidi

Assistant Professor, Institute of Culture, Art and Communication, Iran

Abstract

In his works, Kant distinguished between natural and moral man, and he drew a deep gap between natural man and moral man. To fill this gap, he has resorted to cultural man, and he has also pointed out how culture and civilization have developed throughout history. For Kant, culture plays the role of a bridge that establishes a link between the natural state and the moral state. The cultural situation in which mankind is located, while it is the achievement of human agency throughout history, it is the result of conflict in nature. The conflict mechanically drives human beings forward. Therefore, according to Kant, the growth and development of culture and civilization is, on the one hand, an acquisitive and subjective matter, and on the other hand, it is a genetic and objective matter. Now the question is, how compatible are these two approaches and how much does each of them contribute to the development of culture and civilization? To answer this question, we show with a critical method that nature and man have a contradictory nature in creating culture. In addition, the contribution of man in the development of culture is small compared to the contribution of nature.

Keywords

• nature
• ethics
• culture
• civilization
• genetic approach
• acquisitive approach

Main Subjects

• philosophy