On Kant's Philosophy Of History From Teleology

Kant's philosophy revolution has shocked Europe's theoretic world, just like Japanese scholar saying, the Kant's philosophy is a reservoir, it not only inherit his former philosophy, but also open the new picture for the later generation philosophy. When talking about affects of the Kant's philosophy on the later generation, most of people talk about Kant's epistemology, the moral values and the religious values, obviously, this is insufficiently comprehensive. In fact, there is also profound philosophy of history thought in the Kant's philosophy, it is these very thought that causes Kant's philosophy to be more comprehensive, more profound, and richer. And it also has had the great influence on later generation's historic philosophy. For instance Hegel,Schelling,Fichte and later New Kanteism.The truly philosophy of history appears along with the value and the emphasis of the humanity, therefore, it is the matter that has happened in the modem times, Kant's teleology of critique philosophy is breeding such tendency of philosophy of history. Kant's critique philosophy has provided the possibility for appearance of one kind of truly philosophy of history, because Kant's critique philosophy has made widely known one kind of transcendental subjectivity, but Kant regards teleology as the reason not entity, his aim lies in highlighting the subjectivity status, but this action is closely linked with the appearance of philosophy of history. The philosophy of history must arise at Kant's time, simultaneously, it has epoch-making significance.This article attempts to inspect Kant's philosophy of history under the overall field of perspective of critique philosophy, establish an intrinsic connection between philosophy of history and teleology. It elaborates the subject of Kant's philosophy of history and basic characteristic that he distinguishes from the other schools of philosophy of history. Kant's philosophy of history based on teleology. Author points out that there is a same origin to which both the teleology in Kant's philosophy of history and the one in his critique philosophy can be traced. So we can say that Kant's philosophy of history is the incompatible intertexture of sentimentalism and progressivism.