LUIZ GONZAGA CAMARGO NASCIMENTO

Kant himself asserted in the Preface of his Doctrine of right that the public right part was not yet complete. According to him the social debate was not ripe enough, so that a definitive judgement, regarding the doctrine of public right, couldn’t be completed. This sparks the Leitmotiv of my doctoral research: to look for indications given by Kant which could allow us to figure out possible completeness tracks. For that purpose, four philosophers were called upon to help. Ricardo Terra, with the concept of ‘passages’, systematic unity and architectonic. Diego Trevisan with “the supreme concept” of the Metaphysics of Morals and with his juridical studies, specially about Thomasius. Pauline Kleingeld with the cosmopolitanism and its visiting right. Maurício Keinert with his works regarding autonomy and about the ‘legislative form’. Four chapters bring a description of a new realm of free choice interaction, under the regulative power of the perpetual peace, as mediator of the highest political good and pointer to the moral progress of humanity. The last part, the Conclusion, presents the public autonomy as the keystone of the Kantian Doctrine of right and so as a clue to treat its incompleteness.