Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: history as philosophy
- Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim
- 1 Teleology and history in Kant: the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history
- 2 The purposive development of human capacities
- 3 Reason as a species characteristic
- 4 Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability
- 5 Kant's Fourth Proposition: the unsociable sociability of human nature
- 6 The crooked timber of mankind
- 7 A habitat for humanity
- 8 Kant's changing cosmopolitanism
- 9 The hidden plan of nature
- 10 Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins
- 11 Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history
- 12 Philosophy helps history
- Bibliography
- Index of names and works
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: history as philosophy
- Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim
- 1 Teleology and history in Kant: the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history
- 2 The purposive development of human capacities
- 3 Reason as a species characteristic
- 4 Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability
- 5 Kant's Fourth Proposition: the unsociable sociability of human nature
- 6 The crooked timber of mankind
- 7 A habitat for humanity
- 8 Kant's changing cosmopolitanism
- 9 The hidden plan of nature
- 10 Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins
- 11 Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history
- 12 Philosophy helps history
- Bibliography
- Index of names and works
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- Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim , pp. vii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009