Lexicon of Arguments

 

Adorno XIII 196
Freedom/Kant/Adorno: in Kant, the domination of causality is restricted to the realm of nature, but the realm of the mind should be, as far as it is his native kingdom, as far as human beings act and realize their ideas in their actions, the realm of freedom. The innermost principle of freedom is the same reason, on the basis of which causality as a category is itself constituted. This is the unity moment within Kant's dualism.
>Dualism, >Causality/Kant, >Morals/Kant.
Adorno XIII 252
Freedom/Kant/Adorno: if in the Kantian philosophy of history the idea of freedom can only be mediated by the antagonism of the interests and the empirical people are called radical evil, this doctrine is directly committed to Hobbes, although Kant certainly did not really want to have something in common with Hobbes.
HegelVsHobbes: the Hegelian cunning of reason, as the doctrine that the rational establishment of society asserts itself through the interests of humans, but, as it were, overgrew them, is the strictest consequence from it.

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Höffe I 311
Freedom/Kant/Höffe: Kant demands freedom of speech and freedom of the arts and sciences.
However, he rejects the privilege of the nobility, serfdom (hereditary submission, slavery) and a despotic government as well as the
Höffe I 312
colonialism and a state decreed unchanging church faith.
Justification: The basis for this is the definition of the legal state, with which Kant probably for the first time brings the essence of the modern constitutional state to the concept: "The legal state is that relationship of humans among themselves, which contains the conditions under which alone everyone can participate in its law⁽¹⁾.
>Colonialism/Kant.

1. I. Kant, Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre § 41