# Kant — Democracy and Education character guide

> Kant in Democracy and Education by John Dewey.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0129-ii-the-opposition-of-duty-and-interest

## Who they are

German philosopher whose ideas on duty and reason are discussed.

## Relationships

### [Froebel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/characters/froebel)

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Froebel's educational theories were shaped by Kant's philosophy of knowledge and moral development, reflecting a respectful intellectual debt.

### [Hegel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/characters/hegel)

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Hegel critically engaged with Kant's transcendental idealism, seeking to overcome its limitations through his own dialectical system.

## In the story

### [Education as Unfolding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/ii-education-as-unfolding)

Mentioned among German writers (Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller, Goethe) who appreciated the nurturing influence of collective institutional products.

### [Education as National and as Social](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/v-education-as-national-and-as-social)

Quoted for his individual-cosmopolitan view of education as the process by which man becomes man, and his fear of state-controlled education.

### [I: The Inner and the Outer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/i-the-inner-and-the-outer)

Dewey references Kant's insistence on the good will as the sole moral good, separate from action and consequences, as an example of the inner morality dualism.

### [III: Intelligence and Character](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/iii-intelligence-and-character)

Kant is mentioned as an example of the view that reason supplies the only proper moral motive, though Dewey critiques the separation of moral knowledge from everyday intelligence.

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