The History as a Political and Moral Progress in Kant

Abstract

Investigates the idea of history as a political and moral progress in Kant. Initially shows two divergent positions of interpretive trends, the first of which understands the idea of progress circumscribed only to the political sphere and the second comprises related to the political and moral domains. Shows that this latter exegetical line has broad support from Kantian text. Defends the possibility of moral progress or development of the human disposition to act morally without damage to the Kantian moral theory.