Research On The Relationship Between Good And Evil In Kant’s Argument For Radical Evil

Kant’s discussion of the good and evil of human nature in Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason,that is,the prove of radical evil,mainly revolves around the "cohabitation" of the principle of good and the principle of evil in human nature.As a bounded rational being,he affirms that human beings have three original predispositions for good that are related to moral principles,and he believes that human beings should be assumed to have a general propensity to be evil.The existence of this propensity makes human reverses his original spiritual order and turn to radical evil.On the one hand,Kant’s argument draws ideological resources from the Christian traditional theory of original sin,and on the other hand,it is a philosophical interpretation of the relationship between God and man in that religious tradition.It constitutes a special,interdependent and independent relation between good and evil,that is,the relations between predisposition and propensity.The research defends Kant’s strict conscientious position,mainly through the analysis and clarification of this relation.The first part of the article mainly discusses the differences between Kant’s proof of radical evil and Augustine,Erasmus,and Luther’s views on Christian original sin,and points out how Kant,through a philosophical translation,eliminates original sin and strictness and Arguments that contradict the theory of responsibility,especially the hereditary view and the corruption of reason.The second part focus on the fundamental difference between animal,human and third endowments by critically combining Alan Wood and Henry Allison’s arguments for radical evil,and provides an insight into the three types of propensities,and how this union constitutes the mental order of bounded rational beings.The third part starts from the ethnicity of evil and the responsibility of the moral subject,and discusses the solution of Kant’s responsibility based spiritual order to the problems of "evil nature" and "weakness of will" brought about by the theory of original sin,leaves place for it to improve from evil to good through a critical definition of human nature.