Political writings
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Political writings
（Cambridge texts in the history of political thought）
Cambridge University Press, 1991
2nd, enl. ed
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Kant : political writings
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-299) and indexes
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Description
The 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 Kants'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 bibliography, and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since first publication.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan purpose
- 3. An answer to the question: 'what is enlightenment?'
- 4. On the common saying: 'this may be true in theory, but it does not apply in practice'
- 5. Perpetual peace: a philosophical sketch
- 6. The metaphysics of morals
- 7. The contest of faculties
- 8. Appendix
- 9. Reviews of Herder's ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind
- 10. Conjectures on the beginning of human history
- 11. Introduction to what is orientation in thinking?
- 12. What is orientation in thinking?
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects.
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