Ideal Universal

imagination for a Universal History
With a Cosmopolitan Aim

Translators Introduction
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This leaven appears to have been occasi one(a)d by a passing remark do by Kants colleague and follower Johann Schultz in a 1784 article in the Gotha Learned Papers (see Note 1 below). In order to make good on Schultzs remark, Kant wrote this article, which appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift late in the same year.
This is the rootage, and despite its transiency the most fully dressed out, statement of his philosophy of history. The judgement referred to in the title is a theoretical idea, that is, an a priori conception of a theoretical program to maximize the comprehensibility of human history. It anticipates often of the theory of the use of natural teleology in the theoretical apprehensiveness of nature that Kant was to develop over five years subsequent in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. But this theoretical idea also stands in a close and complex family to Kants moral and political philosophy, and to his conception of practical assurance in divine providence. Especially prominent in it is the first statement of Kants famous conception of a confederation of states united to secure perpetual peace between nations.




The Idea for a Universal History also contained several propositions that were curtly to be disputed by J. G. Herder in his Ideas for the doctrine of the History of Humanity, leading to Kants reply in his reviews of that work (1785) and in the Conjectural Beginning of Human History (1786).
Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht was first published in the Berlinische Monatsschrift IV (11 November, 1784). The translation is found on the presentation of the work in AA 2:15-31 and was undertaken by Allen W. Wood.

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Idea
for a
Universal History
with a Cosmopolitan Aim[?]

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