Kant' s Polítical Theory

Abstract

Kant' s jurídical and polítical meditations fit inside the critical system as a proyect that faces the challenge of building a bridge between liberty and nature. In this sense, law, conceived by Kant as categorical imperative, must accomplish the task of conciliating the need to reform the State in order to achieve justice with the preservation of an irresistible civil authority. The polítical problem is, then, to resolve the conflict between liberty and order. The polítical antinomy (empiricism vs. fanaticism) is resolved with the definition of a practical rationality based on the publicity of polítical rules. Without abolishing the difficulties of Kant's jurídical philosophy, this solution allows to define an intersubjective space of polítical rationality, both free of jurídical positivism and decisionism as well as of historicism or of the dictatorship of a fanatical reason.