根こん本ぽん悪あく

noun

radical evil

A technical term in Kantian philosophy referring to the innate human propensity toward evil, as discussed in Kant's 'Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason'. Not used in everyday Japanese.

• カントの『根こん本ぽん悪あく』の概がい念ねんは、人にん間げんの道どう徳とく的てき悪あくの根こん源げんを問とう。

  Kant's concept of 'radical evil' questions the root of human moral evil.