Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
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| '''"Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose"''' or '''"The Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmopolitical Plan"''' is a 1784 essay by Prussian philosopher [[Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804), a lecturer in [[anthropology]] and [[geography]] at [[Königsberg University]]. | '''"Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose"''' or '''"The Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmopolitical Plan"''' is a 1784 essay by Prussian philosopher [[Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804), a lecturer in [[anthropology]] and [[geography]] at [[Königsberg University]]. | ||
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"Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" or "The Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmopolitical Plan" is a 1784 essay by Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), a lecturer in anthropology and geography at Königsberg University.
See also
- Cosmopolitan
- Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, a work by Kant on perpetual peace
- Federal Europe, a political aspiration of cosmopolitan Europeans
- Genealogical method, a mode of cultural theorising most memorably employed by Friedrich Nietzsche in the 19th century
- Phenomenology of Spirit, a seminal work by German Idealist philosopher Hegel which advances a determinist account of history
- Three Worlds Theory, according to which nations fall into one of three stages of development
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