Resumen:
Kant controversially opposed political revolutions; yet, in morality, he clearly encouraged
a revolutionary attitude. Drawing especially on the relevant texts in the Metaphysics
of Morals, the Religion, the Education and the Anthropology, I explore the conceptual
underpinnings of Kant¿s position, arguing that Kant¿s contrast between moral revolution
and reform is at the basis of his twofold notion of noumenal and phenomenal virtue,
which in turn explains the contrast he draws between principled versus imitative
behaviour in the Education. On this basis, I defend the complementary role of political
reform and moral revolution in his approach to cultural progress