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Posted: 05 Mar 2023

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Kant's Idea of a Universal History •
With a Cosmopolitan Aim •
Amelia Oksenberg Rorty •
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Looking back at the first thesis alone, it might seem that if Kant is not fundamentally concerned with prudence, and its goal of happiness, which is a goal common to any animal, he must be concerned with some more specific but merely natural peculiarity of human beings, something that would allow them to have their own “field” of organic activity -- just as cows are especially good at making use of the grass in front of them, and some parasites, which indirectly make use of the grass too, are especially good at making use of cows as well. By the end of the third ‘Critique’ [The Critique of Judgment was the third and last of Kant's three Critiques, the other two being the Critique of Pure Reason (1781, with a second edition in 1787), which deals with metaphysics and epistemology, and the Critique of Practical Reason of 1788, which, alongside his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals of …] plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/#:~:text=The%20Critique%20of%20Judgment%20was,the%20Metaphysics%20of%20Morals%20of at the latest, Kant is willing to argue that, at one level, all such apparent natural “purposiveness” can be regarded at another level, as simply pointless cycle, with no final end, which is to say it would be a kind of instrumentally self-adjusting organic system that is still “purposeless play” on the while. This is a point not only about cows and parasites, for Kant also sees that there could be highly rational beings caught up in a purposeless play of this type -- for example, Hobbesian beings that could even be legislating rules for themselves and gaining, though all sorts of clear perception and reflection, even higher conditions of power and happiness in a Schulzian ideal state. ~ Page 60

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