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Title Kant's Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim : a critical guide / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty and James Schmidt.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages).
text file
Series Cambridge critical guides
Cambridge critical guides.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Teleology and history in Kant : the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history / Henry E. Allison -- The purposive development of human capacities / Karl Ameriks -- Reason as a species characteristic / Manfred Kuehn -- Good out of evil : Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability / J.B. Schneewind -- Kant's fourth proposition : the unsociable sociability of human nature / Allen Wood -- The crooked timber of mankind / Paul Guyer -- A habitat for humanity / Barbara Herman -- Kant's changing cosmopolitanism / Pauline Kleingeld -- The hidden plan of nature / Eckart Förster -- Providence as progress : Kant's variations on a tale of origins / Genevieve Lloyd -- Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history / Terry Pinkard -- Philosophy helps history / Rüdiger Bittner.
Summary The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work in the philosophy of history.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbeurgerlicher Absicht.
History -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rorty, Amélie.
Schmidt, James.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbeurgerlicher Absicht. English.
Other Form: Print version: Kant's Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009004912
ISBN 9780521874632 (Cloth)
0521874637 (Cloth)
9780511540790 (electronic book)
0511540795 (electronic book)
0511539061 (electronic book)
9780511539060 (electronic book)
Standard No. 9786612316524