POLS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Millenarianism, Immanuel Kant, Universal History
26 Dec 2017
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Immanuel kant idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view . Freedom of the will like every other natural event are determined by universal laws. Everyone follows own purpose, often in opposition of others reckoned in advance: go toward natural but unknown goal. Due to behaviour of men, not possible to follow a plan so one doesn"t know what to do with human race that"s so caught up in its own gifts. First thesis: all the natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end. Second thesis: in man, as the only rational creature on earth those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual. Reason in creature is faculty of widening rules/purposes of use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct.
