BRUNO OBERLANDER ERBELLA

Our project's main problem is the relationship, as established in Immanuel Kant's philosophy, between the a priori structure of human reason and the historical development of its faculties. According to the hypothesis that will be investigated by our research, there are three main concepts that articulate these two, at first contradictory, aspects of rationality. The first is the concept of development (Entwicklung), which must be understood according to the teleological meaning it gains in the "Critique of the Faculty of Judgment" (1790). It explains the progressive actualization of predispositions. The second is the concept of perfection (Perfectionirung), one of the objects of "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" (1798), which defines the improvement of humanity from the conflicting relationship between animality and rationality. Finally, we will work with the progress of the moral disposition (moralische Anlage), a development that implies overcoming natural inclinations, which poses a particular problem in measuring this development that will be dealt with by Kant in texts from the 1790s as the "Conflict of the Faculties" (1798).