Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

Authors: Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood - Cambridge University Press eBooks 2009 cited by 279

This essay appears to have been occasioned by a passing remark made by Kant's colleague and follower Johann Schultz in a 1784 article in the Gotha Learned Papers. In order to make good on Schultz's remark, Kant wrote this article, which appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift late in the same year.