Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

• Introduction: history as philosophy Amélie Rorty and James Schmidt; Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim Immanuel Kant; 1. Teleology and history in Kant Henry E. Allison; 2. The purposive development of human capacities Karl Ameriks; 3. Reason as a species characteristic Manfred Kuehn; 4. Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability Jerome Schneewind; 5. The unsociable sociability of human nature Allen Wood; 6. The crooked timber of mankind Paul Guyer; 7. A habitat for humanity Barbara Herman; 8. Cosmopolitanism and the final end of history Pauline Kleingeld; 9. The hidden plan of nature Eckart Förster; 10. Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins Genevieve Lloyd; 11. Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history Terry Pinkard; 12. Philosophy helps history Rüdiger Bittner; Bibliography; Index of names and works.

"... Idea presents us with a historical account of both the history and the continued prospects for the development of a truly moral society... explores the conditions for the possibility of morality becoming something we actually live by rather than merely being capable of..." --Stefan Bird-Pollan, Harvard University, Concurring Opinons