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Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

Immanuel Kant · 1784 · translated by Thomas De Quincey

Nine propositions arguing that history has a hidden plan: our "unsocial sociability" — the friction of living together — is what drives the species toward reason and a just civil order.

5,723 words · 4 pages · about 26 min of reading

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Text from Wikisource , translated by Thomas De Quincey. Licence: Public domain (terms).