O sentido político da história: considerações sobre razão, liberdade e estado constitucional em Kant e Hegel

Abstract

In this paper, we will investigate the political meaning of history in Kant’s and Hegel's Philosophy of History. Both of them, each in its own way, the substantiation of a given political system - centered in the structuration of the Constitutional State - the fulfillment of human’s history supreme finality. We will analyze, to this end, the works 'Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose', written in 1784, five years before the French Revolution and 'Reason in History - a general introduction to Philosophy of History', organized from the lectures given by Hegel in his maturity. In the final considerations, we’ll try to problematize the notions of "sense" and "finality" of History.