Revolutione sphaerarum mundi

”Revolutionary thinking” in the spirit of Copernicus is, in the first place, associated with the famous fragment from “Critique of Pure Reason”. Placing the roots of Kant’s thinking on revolution in this very work has a special meaning. Revolution understood this way changes the world around us, but also radically changes our way of perceiving it. Starting with such a definition of “Copernican revolution”, one can understand the sense of French Revolution in accordance with Kant’s assumptions. Most of all, it was a change in the way of thinking about the world around us. What is more, it was a radical change that resulted from the scheme of thinking that, although increasingly incompatible with reality, was still valid. This change is a “revolutionis” – a “turnover” that happens suddenly, but, paradoxically, puts our wrong convictions in order and adjusts them to the rights of the reality. Can the French Revolution be seen as such a change and in which moment does it really happen? The famous demolition of Bastille cannot constitute this moment, because such a thing, a “revolutionis”, could not happen so rapidly. If one was to mention a different happening, it could have been the change of Estates General into National Assembly, but was it really a revolution?