IMMANUEL KANT: considerações sobre a teoria do homem como “cidadão de dois mundos”

Abstract

This article has as main objective to present Kant’s conception of man as a“citizen of two worlds”, the apparent dualistic conception founded on the doctrine of TranscendentalIdealism of the Kantian subject. It is from the understanding of triduum’s reason(as theoretical reason, practical reason and speculative reason) that we can conceive how thedistinction made between “what we can know” and “what we can think” reflects or producesconsequences in relation to question about “what we can do.” Speaking of man as a citizen ofboth the sensible world as the intelligible world, Kant is incisive in pointing the way to beadopted this perspective. As options for a way to embrace it as dealing with two ontologicallyseparate worlds or just as two points of view adopted conceptually. During the study willdemonstrate clearly why the philosopher admits only the conceptual distinction and thereforepossible only since the realm of pure thought. As will be shown, this question appearsto be linked to the elucidation of the problem on the development of the Kantian concept offreedom.