REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT AND FUTURE HISTORY: ETHICAL-UTOPIAN DIMENSION IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF KANT

Abstract

One might suspect that the Critique of Judgment is a strictly theoretical work, undoubtedly the work of a philosopher who devoted his entire life to the exercise of thought. However, such an assumption is only apparent. And this because it could be said that all the philosophical production of Kant has a marked practical character. In this sense, one might venture the thesis that the reflective Judgment not only makes possible the understanding of Nature as a kingdom of ends, but that such Judgment is conditio sine qua non for the understanding and transformation of History. Kantian philosophy seems to be turned, projected, towards the realm of the practical, and, of course, the Critique of Judgment cannot be an exception. In it, theory, the purely reflective element, will be cementing the possibility of a rational praxis that we will see applied to history.