Kant: Political Writings

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Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
KANT Political Writings
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors
R AYMOND G EUSS
Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Q UENTIN S KINNER
Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly established as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to make available to students all the most important texts in the history of western political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. All the familiar classic texts will be included, but the series seeks at the same time to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating an extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before available in a modern English edition. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction together with chronologies, biographical sketches, a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. When completed, the series will aim to offer an outline of the entire evolution of western political thought.
For a list of titles published in the series, please see end of book .
KANT Political Writings
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
HANS REISS
Professor Emeritus of German, University of Bristol
TRANSLATED BY
H. B. NISBET
Professor of Modern Languages, University of Cambridge
SECOND, ENLARGED EDITION
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First published 1970
Reprinted 1971
First paperback edition 1977
Sixth printing 1985
Second enlarged edition 1991
25th printing 2013
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To Thomas, Richard, Arnold and Marcus
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY WITH A COSMOPOLITAN PURPOSE
AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: ‘WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?’
ON THE COMMON SAYING: ‘THIS MAY BE TRUE IN THEORY, BUT IT DOES NOT APPLY IN PRACTICE’
I On the Relationship of Theory to Practice in Morality in General
II On the Relationship of Theory to Practice in Political Right
III On the Relationship of Theory to Practice in International Right
PERPETUAL PEACE: A PHILOSOPHICAL SKETCH
Appendix
I On the Disagreement between Morals and Politics in Relation to Perpetual Peace
II On the Agreement between Politics and Morality according to the Transcendental Concept of Public Right
THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Introduction to the Theory of Right
The Theory of Right, Part II: Public Right
THE CONTEST OF FACULTIES
A Renewed Attempt to Answer the Question: ‘Is the Human Race Continually Improving?’
APPENDIX FROM ‘THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON’
Transcendental Logic II, Dialectic, I, 1: Of Ideas in General
Introduction to REVIEWS OF HERDER’S IDEAS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MANKIND and CONJECTURES ON THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN HISTORY
REVIEWS OF HERDER’S IDEAS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
CONJECTURES ON THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN HISTORY
Introduction to WHAT IS ORIENTATION IN THINKING?
WHAT IS ORIENTATION IN THINKING?
POSTSCRIPT
Notes to the Text
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Preface to the Second Edition
The Cambridge University Press and the editors of the new series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought have kindly invited me to produce a second edition of Kant’s Political Writings , of which the first edition first appeared in an earlier series almost twenty years ago. They also agreed that the volume might be enlarged by three additional texts. To decide on the most suitable texts presented me with anything but an easy choice. The three suitable pieces chosen, the reviews of Herder’s Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History and What Is Orientation in Thinking? , are not ‘political’ writings in the narrow sense of the word. They do, however, supply a context for the strictly political writings published in the first edition; for all of them illustrate Kant’s critical approach to reasoning and his attitude to the public use of reason without which political justice could not, in his view, be achieved. What Is Orientation in Thinking? does so particularly clearly. It also introduces the reader to the moral basis of Kant’s politics, while the other two texts illustrate Kant’s conception of history, another pillar of his political thought. I greatly regret that there was no space to include the other pieces relating to politics mentioned in the preface to the first edition. Perhaps one day the constraints on space will be less pressing and all writings by Kant which refer to politics, including the whole of the Theory of Right , can be printed in a later edition.

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