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

Author： Amélie Oksenberg Rorty; James Schmidt

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9780511536977

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521874632

Subject： B516.31 Immanuel Kant (Kant, I. 1724 ~ 1804)

Keyword：欧洲哲学

Language： ENG

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

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Lively 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 for 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.

Chapter

Introduction: history as philosophy

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

Translator’s Introduction

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

Fifth Proposition

Sixth Proposition

Seventh Proposition

Eighth Proposition

Ninth Proposition

Chapter 1 Teleology and history in Kant: the critical foundations of Kant’s philosophy of history

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VII

Chapter 2 The purposive development of human capacities

1. An initial glance: thesis, context, title

1.1. The genetic problem

1.2. The turn after Herder

1.3. The big Idea

2. Complications

2.1. Freedom, nature, history

2.2. Complications in context

2.3. An ambivalence complex

3. Problems in the thesis

3.1. The purpose problem

3.2. The reason problem

3.3. The self-made problem

3.4. The moral problem

4. Assessing Kant’s historical essay

4.1. A genetic account of Kantian epigenesis as not very genetic

4.2. The primacy of the practical, as non-historical and historical

Chapter 3 Reason as a species characteristic

III

VII

Chapter 4 Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability

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Chapter 5 Kant’s Fourth Proposition: the unsociable sociability of human nature

Preliminary: Kant’s first three Propositions

Fourth Proposition: social antagonism

The passions

Love and sympathy

The moral law

Radical evil

Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe

Chapter 6 The crooked timber of mankind

I. “From such crooked timber as humankind is made of nothing entirely straight can be made”

II. Moral politicians

III. Radical evil

IV. Conclusion

Chapter 7 A habitat for humanity

1. The watershed

2. Inheriting benefits

3. The proleptic effect

Chapter 8 Kant’s changing cosmopolitanism

1. The final end of human history

2. Kant’s project in the Idea for a Universal History

3. The nature of the federation of states

4. Modifications to the Seventh Proposition

Building straight with crooked wood: the new importanceof the republic in Kant’s philosophy of right

A second type of federation

From a worldwide European legislation to a more genuine ‘cosmopolitan constitution’

5. Continuity: the final end of human history as a moral world

Chapter 9 The hidden plan of nature

History

Entwicklung

Bildung

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Chapter 10 Providence as progress: Kant’s variations on a tale of origins

Chapter 11 Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history

The first problem

The second problem

Chapter 12 Philosophy helps history

Bibliography

Index of names and works

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