Natureza Humana e Sociabilidade na Antropologia Pragmática de Immanuel Kant

Abstract

This article suggests a way of reading some excerpts from Immanuel Kant's works in the light of his conception of pragmatic anthropology in order to corroborate the argument that has been built up about the concept of human nature and its connection with the notion of sociability (Geselligkeit). To this end, this nature inherent in the constitution of the human being has a peculiarity that makes it different from other living beings in nature, which is the capacity for human unity to foster certain dispositions already present in man. Thus, sociability emerges as an element that both contributes to the formation of society and enables the use of certain human dispositions that must be developed in union with others. In this way, the approach proposed here is to consider human nature as one that contains a potential for the process of social formation, since sociability is part of human nature, it strives to maintain this social formation through harmonious coexistence, the use of good manners, such as decency, decorum, etc.