A ANTROPOLOGIA PRAGMÁTICA COMO PARTE DO PROJETO CRÍTICO EM KANT

Abstract

The Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798) has, over the last years, emerged among experts in Kant's philosophy, as an important text among his works. Despite its character as an empirical investigation, the book is connected to Kant’s transcendental project. This finding led many Kantians to recognize that, in addition to being connected to his critical project, the science which Kant named pragmatic anthropology is a fundamental premise to understanding his project of a transcendental philosophy: the supposition that there is a human nature. Therefore, in this paper, we are going to analyze the relationship between the Anthropology and the Critique, taking as a guide the initial thesis held by Foucault, in his Gênese e Estrutura da Antropologia de Kant, that there is a close relationship between these two works.