Anthropology, History, and Education

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature.

Immanuel Kant (Author), Robert B. Louden (Edited and translated by), Günter Zöller (Edited and translated by)

9780521452502, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 November 2007

614 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 1 kg

"...The essays assembled in this collection present us with Kant’s most direct and encompassing characterizations of human nature and are therefore essential reading for a deeper and more complete understanding of his moral philosophy.... The anthropological dimension of Kant’s thought is too often neglected. The essays assembled in this collection are essential reading for remedying this deficiency, and they will inevitably challenge us to (re)consider the merit of Kant’s account of the human position below the starry heavens above." --
Chris Henry McTavish, Athabasca University, Philosophy in Review

Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise.

Introduction Robert B. Louden
Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime (1764) translated by Paul Guyer
Essay on the maladies of the head (1764) translated by Holly Wilson
Review of Moscati's work of the corporeal essential differences between the structure of animals and humans (1771) translated by Günter Zöller
Of the different races of human beings (1775) translated by Holly Wilson and Günter Zöller
Essays regarding the philanthropinum (1776/1777) translated by Robert B. Louden
A note to Physicians (1782) translated by Günter Zöller
Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan aim (1784) translated by Allen W. Wood
Reviews of J. G. Herder's Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Humanity, Parts 1 and 2 (1785) translated by Allen W. Wood
Determination of the concept of a human race (1785) translated by Holly Wilson and Günter Zöller
Conjectural beginning of human history (1786) translated by Allen W. Wood
Some remarks on Ludwig Heinrich Jakob's examination of Mendelssohn's Morning Hours (1786) translated by Günter Zöller
On the Philosophers' medicine of the body (1786) translated by Mary Gregor
On the use of teleological principles in philosophy (1788) translated by Günter Zöller
From Soemmerring's On the Organ of the Soul (1796) translated by Arnulf Zweig
Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view (1798) translated by Robert B. Louden
Postscript to Christian Gottlieb Mielcke's Lithuanian-German and German-Lithuanian Dictionary (1800) translated by Günter Zöller
Lectures on pedagogy (1803) translated by Robert B. Louden.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Philosophy [HP]