The Historicity and Teleology in Kant's Later Philosophy and Its Ethical and Political Potential

In contrast to the prevailing ahistorical Neo-Kantian constructivism, authors such as Axel Honneth and arguably Jürgen Habermas intended to reconcile Kant`s practical philosophy with Hegel`s philosophy of history. In several of his later works, written mostly after the publication of the Critique of Judgment, Kant offered the accounts on judgment, history and morality which effectively altered some of his earlier constructivism and explicated the model of reflection on human existence beyond the binary of absolutism and relativism. Considering the interpretations, provided of Rudolf A. Makkreel, Hannah Arendt, and Alessandro Ferrara the following discussion intends to provide an alternative model for the hermeneutics of social and political existence, and showcase a basis for the political ethics, grounded in the reflective potential inherent in rational yet historically, contextually and intersubjectively grounded being-in-the-world. As such, the the proposed paper intends to overcome the duality of liberalism and communalism while being attentive to the dangers of eurocentrism and justification of pathological political practices that could be overlooked by appropriating the method of normative-historical reconstruction. In the final part of the presentation I offer a concrete example of the sustainability of the proposed revision of Kantian practical philosophy with the exemplification of the problematic practices which challenge the idea of mutuality and solidarity of the political and social agents in the current socio-political climate.