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Idea for a Universal History

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View[1]
Source: Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784). Translation by Lewis White Beck. From Immanuel Kant, “On History,” The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963.
Transcribed: by Rob Lucas
Introduction
Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point of view, concerning the freedom [...]

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Welcome to Kant’s Challenge

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to a new blog dealing with Kant. This venture will focus in particular on Kant and the philosophy of history, in relation to the study of Kant’s essay on history and its analysis in World History And The Eonic Effect.
The question of history and evolution as addressed by the study of the ‘eonic effect’ [...]

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