Revolution, discontinuity and progress in Kant. Copernican revolution and Asymptotic revolution in critical philosophy

FRANCISCO NAISHTAT

Sao Paulo

Congreso; 10th Kant International Congress, Direito e paz na filosofia de Kant; 2005

Universidad de Campinas y Kant-Gesellschaft

It exceeds the purpose of this work to reconstruct Kant’s philosophy of history, or his thesis on the French Revolution. We are, instead, interested in examining the contrast between the level of the Copernican revolution and the level of historical revolutions in Kant, so we can afterwards analyse in fine the possible articulations of the two within the critical philosophy. However, to examine this contrast it is necessary to bear in mind the other historical frame that operates in Kant, that is, not the frame provided by the history of pure reason according to its stages a priori outlined by reason, but that of world history, that remits us to its inevitable dimension of unaccomplishment in the sens of something inevitably unfinished.