Anthropology, History, and Education

by Edited and translated by Robert B. Louden, Günter Zöller

• ISBN13: 9780521452502
• ISBN10: 0521452503
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Anthropology, History, and Education contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, have never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?'should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise.

Table of Contents

General editors' preface	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
General introduction	p. 1
Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime (1764)	p. 18
Essay on the maladies of the head (1764)	p. 63
Review of Moscati's work Of the corporeal essential differences between the structure of animals and humans (1771)	p. 78
Of the different races of human beings (1775)	p. 82
Essays regarding the Philanthropinum (1776/1777)	p. 98
A note to physicians (1782)	p. 105
Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim (1784)	p. 107
Review of J. G. Herder's Ideas for the philosophy of the history of humanity. Parts 1 and 2 (1785)	p. 121
Determination of the concept of a human race (1785)	p. 143
Conjectural beginning of human history (1786)	p. 160
Some remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob's Examination of Mendelssohn's Morning hours (1786)	p. 176
On the philosophers' medicine of the body (1786)	p. 182
On the use of teleological principles in philosophy (1788)	p. 192
From Soemmerring's On the organ of the soul (1796)	p. 219
Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view (1798)	p. 227
Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke's Lithuanian-German and German-Lithuanian dictionary (1800)	p. 430
Lectures on pedagogy (1803)	p. 434
Editorial notes	p. 486
Glossary	p. 528
Bibliography	p. 565
Index	p. 584
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