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Kant's Teleology Of History

Posted on:2011-07-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330362956990Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Philosophizers before Kant understood and made use of teleology from the perspective of ontology, of the results, whether the internal teleology of Aristotle or the external teleology needed for the world view of mechanistic of modern times, it is necessary to regard God as"the first mover".Kant succeeds the internal teleology from Aristotle; but for Kant the principle of teleology is just a way of judgment also a regulative principl for human beings to treat the nature and the whole history. With the principle the clue of the trend and process of human beings'history will be clear., what is the purpose of Kant's teleology of history. Through detailed research my thesis intended to point out that the reason of history focusing on the entire human species and historical process, by way of human beings'"unsocial sociality" in horizon of the universal history urges a civil society which already realized common legal, and gradually transcends international union to achieve world citizen state, to ensure the utmost and fully freedom and rights of human beings and make a eternal peace can be realized.
Keywords/Search Tags:principle of teleology, purpose of history, reason of history, universal history, eternal peace
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