Kantian anthropology and the feminine task of moralit

<div>Despite Kant&rsquo;s unfriendly descriptions about women in works such as Anthropology from a pragmatic&nbsp;point of view and Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime, the characteristics&nbsp;attributed to them with regard to their &ldquo;character&rdquo; and dispositions could serve much more noble</div><div>purposes than the mere caprice of a &ldquo;weak&rdquo; sex which has no autonomy and is nearly amoral. One of&nbsp;these noble purposes would be related to the natural end of mankind towards its progress and&nbsp;perfection, especially with regard to the highest level of its &ldquo;moralization&rdquo;, yet far from being achieved.</div><div>The characteristics of such womanlike functions are obviously connected with the preservation of&nbsp;human species but also with the development of culture and civilization of mankind in general; these&nbsp;very characteristics would be those of an anthropological (empirical) discipline from a pragmatic</div><div>point of view. In this sense, as well as philosophy and any other deep and hard study are appropriate&nbsp;for men, for they are rationally closer to moral understanding in a formal way, what is appropriate for&nbsp;women is the anthropological observation aimed to the application of what constitutes the practical&nbsp;part of pure ethics: the pragmatic anthropology, so as it is defined by Kant, is a feminine task par&nbsp;excellence</div>

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