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Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, 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, had 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.
Chapter
FOURTH SECTION. ON NATIONAL CHARACTERS* INSOFAR AS THEY REST UPON THE DIFFERENT FEELING OF THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL
2 Essay on the maladies of the head
Essay on the maladies of the head
3 Review of Moscati’s work Of the corporeal essential differences between the structure of animals and humans
Review of Moscati’s work Of the corporeal essential differences between the structure of animals and humans
4 Of the different races of human beings
Of the different races of human beings
1. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF THE RACES IN GENERAL
2. DIVISION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES INTO ITS DIFFERENT RACES
3. OF THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE ORIGIN OF THESE DIFFERENT RACES
4. OF THE OCCASIONING CAUSESA OF THE FOUNDINGB OF DIFFERENT RACES
5 Essays regarding the Philanthropinum
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Essays regarding the Philanthropinum
7 Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim
8 Review of J. G. Herder’s Ideas for the philosophy of the history of humanity
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Review of J. G. Herder’s Ideas for the philosophy of the history of humanity Parts 1 and 2
9 Determination of the concept of a human race
Determination of the concept of a human race
1. ONLY WHAT IS HEREDITARYA IN AN ANIMAL SPECIES CAN JUSTIFY A CLASSIFICATORY DIFFERENCE IN THE ANIMAL SPECIES
2. ONE CAN ASSUME FOUR CLASSIFICATORY DIFFERENCES OF HUMAN BEINGS WITH RESPECT TO SKIN COLOR
3. NO OTHER CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTY IS NECESSARILY HEREDITARY IN THE CLASS OF THE WHITES THAN WHAT BELONGS TO THE HUMAN SPECIES IN GENERAL; AND SO WITH THE OTHER CLASSES AS WELL
4. IN THE MIXING OF THOSE FOUR NAMED CLASSES WITH ONE ANOTHER THE CHARACTER OF EACH ONE IS UNFAILINGLY HEREDITARY
5. REFLECTION ON THE LAW OF NECESSARY HALF-BREED GENERATIONF
6. ONLY THAT WHICH IS UNFAILINGLY HEREDITARY IN THE CLASSIFICATORY DIFFERENCES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES CAN JUSTIFY THE DESIGNATION OF A PARTICULAR HUMAN RACE
10 Conjectural beginning of human history
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Conjectural beginning of human history
11 Some remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Examination of Mendelssohn’s Morning hours
Some remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Examination of Mendelssohn’s Morning hours
12 On the philosophers’ medicine of the body
On the philosophers’ medicine of the body
13 On the use of teleological principles in philosophy
On the use of teleological principles in philosophy
14 From Soemmerring’s On the organ of the soul
From Soemmerring’s On the organ of the soul
15 Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view
16 Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Lithuanian–German and German–Lithuanian dictionary
Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Lithuanian–German and German–Lithuanian dictionary
PREFACE POSTSCRIPT OF A FRIEND
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime
Introduction to Essay on the maladies of the head
Essay on the maladies of the head
Introduction to Of the different races of human beings
Essays regarding the Philanthropinum
Introduction to A note to physicians
Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim
Review of J. G. Herder’s Ideas for the philosophy of the history of humanity
Introduction to Determination of the concept of a human race
Determination of the concept of a human race
Conjectural beginning of human history
Introduction to Some Remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Examination of Mendelssohn’s Morning hours
Some Remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Examination of Mendelssohn’s Morning hours
Introduction to On the philosophers’ medicine of the body
On the philosophers’ medicine of the body
Introduction to On the use of teleological principles in philosophy
On the use of teleological principles in philosophy
Introduction to From Soemmerring’s On the organ of the soul
From Soemmerring’s On the organ of the soul
Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view
Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Lithuanian–German and German–Lithuanian dictionary
Introduction to Lectures on pedagogy
Anthropology, History, and Education
( The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant )
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