Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2013 Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation Christina Drogalis Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Drogalis, Christina, "Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation" (2013). Dissertations. 512. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/512 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. 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