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9780521874632

Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

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    9780521874632

  • ISBN10:

    0521874637

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-29
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Lively current debates about narratives of historical progress, the conditions for international justice, and the implications of globalisation have prompted a renewed interest in Kant's Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim. The essays in this volume, written by distinguished contributors, discuss the questions that are at the core of Kant's investigations. Does the study of history convey any philosophical insight? Can it provide political guidance? How are we to understand the destructive and bloody upheavals that constitute so much of human experience? What connections, if any, can be traced between politics, economics, and morality? What is the relation between the rule of law in the nation state and the advancement of a cosmopolitan political order? These questions and others are examined and discussed in a book that will be of interest to philosophers, social and political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. vii
List of abbreviationsp. x
Introduction: history as philosophyp. 1
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aimp. 9
Teleology and history in Kant: the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of historyp. 24
The purposive development of human capacitiesp. 46
Reason as a species characteristicp. 68
Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociabilityp. 94
Kant's Fourth Proposition: the unsociable sociability of human naturep. 112
The crooked timber of mankindp. 129
A habitat for humanityp. 150
Kant's changing cosmopolitanismp. 171
The hidden plan of naturep. 187
Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of originsp. 200
Norms, facts, and the philosophy of historyp. 216
Philosophy helps historyp. 231
Bibliographyp. 250
Index of names and worksp. 256
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