Kant’s writings on political philosophy do not clearly and conclusively determine its place and significance in his critical philosophy. To address this issue, most accounts of Kant’s political philosophy concentrate on his explicitly political texts that cluster around the second and third Critiques. Although many of these interpretations illuminate different aspects of Kant’s political philosophy, they are silent with regard to a concept of publicness that is implied in the first Critique. This article suggests that Kant’s critical method of metaphysics implies a disciplinary conception of publicness, which is foundational for his political philosophy. It demonstrates how this conception of publicness can be found in the Doctrine of Method of the first Critique, more specifically, in Kant’s argument that all acts of reason must be subjected to the discipline of pure reason.

康德关于政治哲学的著作并没有明确和结论性地确定康德在其批判哲学中的地位和意义。为了解决这个问题，康德的政治哲学的大多数论述都集中在围绕第二批和第三批批评的他明确的政治文本上。尽管这些解释中的许多阐释了康德政治哲学的不同方面，但它们对第一个批判中所隐含的公共观念却保持沉默。本文认为，康德的形而上学批判方法蕴含着公共性的学科概念，这是他的政治哲学的基础。它展示了如何在第一批批评方法论中找到这种公共观念。更具体地说，在康德的论点中，所有理性行为都必须服从于纯粹理性的纪律。