This paper argues that the political adage “ Be ye prudent as serpents and guileless as doves ” involves three different types of relation between prudence and morality, namely: unification ( Vereinigung ), subordination ( Unterordnung ), and association ( Beigesellung ). I maintain that these relations are set up according to the same principle that determines the relationship between mechanical and teleological causality in the third Critique . Thus, I argue that morality and prudence are much more systematically related within the system of critical philosophy than is normally assumed in the literature and that this is made possible by way of an intimate relationship between prudence and teleological judgment.

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论蛇与鸽子：康德政治哲学中审慎与道德之间的系统关系

本文认为，政治格言“像蛇一样谨慎，像鸽子一样狡猾”，涉及审慎与道德之间的三种不同类型的关系，即：统一（Vereinigung），从属（Unterordnung）和结社（Beiggesellung）。我坚持认为，这些关系是根据确定第三批判中的机械和目的因果关系之间的同一原理建立的。因此，我认为，道德和审慎在批判哲学体系内比文献中通常所假设的更为系统地相关，并且这是通过审慎与目的论判断之间的亲密关系而实现的。