Kant "psicoterapeuta morale" le malattie dell'anima tra antropologia, psicologia ed etica

ABSTRACT: Kant’s anthropological thought open ethics to the world through the analysis and the motivation of human action. In this perspective the subject of affections, feelings and their possible deviance leads to a complex relationship between morality, anthropology and psychology. Disorders related to the capacity for desire are among the diseases of the spirit. Emotions and passions despite being very different, both exclude the rule of reason, but whilst the first are only a momentary insult to freedom, the latter find their satisfaction in slavery. Kant through his ethical-anthropological-psychological analysis emphasises the concept of worldly wisdom, of which he highlights the link between humanitas and ethics which he wants to maintain at all costs. Ethics on a human scale, where the use of anthropology for the sake of prudence and wisdom, as a barrier to degenerate forms of virtue, is understood as the self-preparation and education of man to look after his ego, toward acting above all in a way that ensures an independent existence.