Resumen de Edenic Animality, Self-Sustenance, Loving and Dying: Corporeal Biological Needs and Emotions in Kant
The first part of the title (Edenic Animality) establishes a direct link to the Old Testament Creation narrative, the heart of the Book of Genesis, which Kant interpreted to develop a conjecture about the beginning of history. What is the meaning of conjecture and what is its relationship with the genesis of history? What does the first human being mean to Kant and what is its relationship with the impulses and instincts experienced in the Garden of Eden? Further still, what link is established between instincts, emotions (Rührungen), sentiments (Gefühle) and human moral action? This short text will seek to answer these questions by demonstrating how the anthropological interpretation of the Holy Scriptures offers a psycho-corporeal genealogy of moral behaviour. In describing the progressive emancipation from Edenic instinct, Kant considers emotional states (loss, love, fear, hope) as essential steps toward the formation of a moral conscience.
