___________________________________________________________  Ferda Yıldırım Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, İslami İlimler Fakültesi, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü 47100, Mardin, Turkeyyldrmferda@yahoo.com Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy Beytulhikme Int J Phil 11 (4) 2021 Doi: 10.18491/beytulhikme.1761 Research Article: 1477-1495 ___________________________________________________________ Kant’ın Özgürlük Düşüncesi ve Adorno’nun Negatif Ahlak Felsefesi Bağlamında Radikal Kötülük Tartışması [*] ___________________________________________________________ The Discussion of Radical Evil in the Context of Kant's Idea of Freedom and Adorno's Negative Moral Philosophy FERDA YILDIRIM Mardin Artuklu University Received: 23.03.2021Accepted: 25.11.2021 Abstract: Kant claims that human being has a natural propensity to evil and pre- sents this propensity as a basis for the realization of freedom. He acknowledges that the person bearing the trait of free existence is bound to act in line with the moral law, and in that vein also with the deontology in order to avoid the evil. Adorno, on the other hand, claims that there exists no freedom in the sense Kant assumes in the today’s world. Extrapolating from negative moral philosophy, Adorno tries to show that Kantian duty-based ethics can operate as an instru- ment legitimating the evil available. This article focuses on how Kant grounds the doctrine of radical evil within the scope of the relationship between freedom and evil and it elaborates on the way of commentating Adorno’s objections to Kant within the context of the negative moral philosophy. Keywords: Radical evil, freedom, moral law, negative dialectics, negative moral philosophy.