Abstract

This article aims to contribute, seeking subvention in some aspects of the thoughts of Kant and Freud, to a reflection on the notion of the civilization progress, in a moral sense, withdrawing from it the possibilities of construction and maintenance of civilizing achievements. Therefore an investigation on its respective conceptions of human nature, of humanity civilization progress, of progressive demonstration of human spirit, in synthesis, its philosophies of history. It will be achieved by pointing approaches, as well as theoretical divergences of both, which option is justified by the fact that they present discerned perspectives in relation to the indications, developments and outcomes of the relationship between sensibility and reason, which is manifested in what we call society, or more broadly, civilization