Educar(si) alla libertà. L’etica kantiana fra antropologia e pedagogia

The text aims to reconstruct and evaluate the systematic contribution of pedagogical reflection to the development of certain crucial topics of Kant’s practical philosophy. After having outlined the anthropological background against which Kant’s reflections on education are framed, some peculiar features of Kantian pedagogy are then highlighted. The goal is to show how they can contribute, albeit within very clear limits, to enrich the debate on some very controversial issues in Kant’s moral thought. Above all, the fact that the stable adoption of a certain behavioural habitus can influence the edification of a genuinely moral Gesinnung, while the latter remaining unfathomable. Finally, the hypotheses formulated in the first four paragraphs are tested through an analysis of the places in the Doctrine of Virtue of the Metaphysics of Morals, where it seems possible to discern a clear systematic role for education.