Kant: Political WritingsThe original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first time, his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History, as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking?. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliogaphy and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since the first edition. |
Contents
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose | 41 |
An Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment? | 54 |
On the Common Saying This May be True in Theory but it does not Apply in Practice | 61 |
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN MORALITY IN GENERAL | 64 |
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN POLITICAL RIGHT | 73 |
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEORY TO PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL RIGHT | 87 |
Perpetual Peace A Philosophical Sketch | 93 |
ON THE DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN MORALS AND POLITICS IN RELATION TO PERPETUAL PEACE | 116 |
IS THE HUMAN RACE CONTINUALLY IMPROVING? | 177 |
Appendix from The Critique of Pure Reason | 191 |
Introduction to Reviews of Herders Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History | 192 |
Reviews of Herders Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind | 201 |
Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History | 221 |
Introduction to What is Orientation in Thinking? | 235 |
What is Orientation in Thinking? | 237 |
Postscript | 250 |
ON THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN POLITICS AND MORALITY ACCORDING TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL CONCEPT OF PUBLIC RIGHT | 125 |
The Metaphysics of Morals | 131 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF RIGHT | 132 |
PUBLIC RIGHT | 136 |
The Contest of Faculties | 176 |
Notes to the Text | 273 |
Bibliography | 286 |
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