ION MILITARU, Cerul înstelat sau despre rolul meteorologiei în descoperirea conştiinţei de sine la Kant [The Starry Sky, or, the Role of Meteorology in Kant’s Exploration of Self-Awareness]

ION MILITARU
Cercetător şt. I dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C. S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor”, Craiova, al Academiei Române; E-mail: militaruion_l@yahoo.com

Abstract
Starting from the famous epilogue to Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, where the sky appears to be a guide to our moral consciousness, the author of the present article identifies two stances in Kant’s thinking: 1) The sky as an object of his scientific research and 2) The sky as a guide to moral consciousness. The latter introduces in Kant’s thinking the role of meteorology in establishing and crystallizing self-awareness.

Keywords
meteosensitivity, Kant, self-awareness, sky, law