Kant y la teleología de la naturaleza: acerca de la intención de la naturaleza en Idea para una historia universal en intención cosmopolita y la garantía de la naturaleza en Hacia la paz perpetua

Martín Arias Albisu

doi:10.30972/nvt.1725717

Authors

Martín Arias Albisu Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9835-4816

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30972/nvt.1725717

Keywords:

Kant, teleology, nature

Abstract

In Idea for a universal history in cosmopolitan intention (1784), Kant presents the concept of an intention of nature that gives meaning and purpose to the history of humanity. The concept of this intention is a regulative idea of theoretical reason, and is then grounded by the doctrine of these ideas presented by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason. The purpose of nature for the human being is the complete development of human dispositions, especially the rational one. As these dispositions are developed maximally within the framework of a just civil constitution, and as the establishment of this constitution would be useless if there were a situation of war between the different States, it becomes necessary to institute a confederation of them, possessing a coercive power, to legally settle conflicts. In Toward perpetual peace (1795), on the other hand, Kant presents the concept of a guarantee of nature for the asymptotic approach of the human being toward a condition of perpetual peace. The political form of this condition is that of a voluntary confederation of States without constitution or coercive power. The aforementioned guarantee of nature is not of a theoretical character, but of a practical character, because its function is not to provide knowledge, but to support the moral purpose of realizing the idea of perpetual peace asymptotically. This guarantee of nature is based on the teleological doctrine of nature set forth in the Critique of the power of judgment. The objective of this article is to present in detail the differences and similarities between the two teleological conceptions of nature that we have just outlined.

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