%0 Journal Article %T La actualidad del pensamiento pol¨ªtico de Kant %A Terra %A Ricardo %J EPISTEME %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper, we seek to show the present force of kant£¿s political thought, exposing four themes: 1) the philosophy of history as a learning process of the political-juridical gains and losses; 2) the maintenance of a tense relation between the liberal and the democratic perspectives (in other words, the articulation between human rights and popular sovereignty; 3) aufkl£¿rung and the formation of the public sphere; 4) cosmopolitan right against colonialism. %K philosophy of history %K public sphere %K cosmopolitan right. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-43242008000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en