Political Philosophy of I. Kant in Socio-Cultural Context

In the given article is analyzed the political philosophy of I. Kant in wide socio-cultural context. The author examines the problem of correlation between politics and morals, different variants of it (from machiavellism - «the aim justifies any means» up to pacifistic - «nonresistance to evil by force»). The article investigates the principles of humanistic policy («the virtue aim can be achieved only by virtue methods») and its collisions on example of creativity of I. Il'in, L. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky and modern politics.

political philosophy, machiavellism, a humanistic policy, nonviolence, pacifism, enlightenment utopianism