Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim: A Critical Guide Book

List of contributors vii

List of abbreviations x

Introduction: history as philosophy Amélie Oksenberg Rorty James Schmidt 1

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim Immanuel Kant Allen Wood) 9

1 Teleology and history in Kant: the critical foundations of Kant's philosophy of history Henry E. Allison 24

2 The purposive development of human capacities Karl Ameriks 46

3 Reason as a species characteristic Manfred Kuehn 68

4 Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability J. B. Schneewind 94

5 Kant's Fourth Proposition: the unsociable sociability of human nature Allen Wood 112

6 The crooked timber of mankind Paul Guyer 129

7 A habitat for humanity Barbara Herman 150

8 Kant's changing cosmopolitanism Pauline Kleingeld 171

9 The hidden plan of nature Eckart F&oumlet;rster 187

10 Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins Genevieve Lloyd 200

11 Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history Terry Pinkard 216

12 Philosophy helps history R&umlet;diger Bittner 231

Bibliography 250

Index of names and works 256