Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ARAMAYO, ROBERTO. POLITICS AND ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN KANT'S THOUGHT. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2013, vol.62, suppl.1, pp.15-36. ISSN 0120-0062.

The reading of Rousseau marks a "political turn" in Kantian thought, and political issues permeate not only the "silent decade" but also the first and third Critiques. In fact, Kant dedicates the third of his famous questions to clarifying this issue through his "philosophical history" or philosophy of history. It is in this context that what I have called an elpidological imperative takes shape, because self-confidence is fundamental in order not to give in to the discouragement provoked by the absurd spectacle of human history. The conflicts of our selfish inclinations, the antagonisms of unsociable sociability, will serve to deploy our best natural dispositions, as if guided by a plan established indistinctly by Nature, Providence, or Fate. In sum, politics is regarded as a condition of possibility of our moral life and not as its corollary.

Keywords : I. Kant; J. J. Rosseau; philosophy of history; political philosophy.

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