Напредак или назадовање: Кант и право на (р)еволуцију
Progress or Regress: Kant and the right to (r)evolution

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author examines Kant’s reflections on the nature of revolution, as well as with the justification of revolutionary action. Based on Kant’s narrative on the history of human civilization, as well as on Kant’s writings on philosophy of law and political philosophy, the author analyzes Kant’s arguments about the absolute prohibition of revolution, dividing them into legal and moral arguments. The author, furthermore, explains how Kant envisions resistance to an unjust authority, and in accordance with this, analyzes the concept of reform in Kant’s legal and political philosophy. The aim of this paper, however, is to reconcile Kant’s prohibition of revolution with the wholehearted enthusiasm that Kant expresses towards the French bourgeois revolution. For this purpose, the author shows that revolution, according to Kant, is implicitly justified if it leads from state of nature to the state of civil society. The author believes that pre-revolutionary France can be seen as a state of nature, which would consequently bring into conformity Kant’s prohibition of revolution with his support for the revolutionary tendencies of eighteenth century France.

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