Kant y la idea del progreso indefinido de la humanidad

Abstract

The idea of progress that underlies Modernity (and which Kant praises) has a very singular trait: its allegedly linear, irreversible and necessary character. Here we seek to analyze the fundamental dimensions of the Kantian conception of progress, and to trace its limits, appealing to a reformulation of the notion of progress, not based on autonomy, understood in terms of self-consciousness and self-sufficiency, but on the radical interdependence and solidarity of the human being and on the recovery of the idea of the “common good”.