大自然的意图——解读康德的历史哲学

康德在历史哲学中提出一个核心概念:大自然的意图。他通过这个核心概念来探讨人类历史的发展规律和发展动力的根本问题,并进一步考察人类如何从自然状态到法治社会,再到世界公民社会,最终实现永久和平。这一概念包含丰富的辩证思想,是黑格尔的“理性的狡计”的直接思想来源,是德国古典历史哲学中最有价值的思想之一,但是它也存在着历史的局限性。

THE SCHEME OF BIG-NATURE——Explanation on Kant''''s history philosophy

In history philosophy,Kant puts forward to the central concept:The scheme of big-nature.By the central concept,Kant makes an inquiry into the basic question of the law of development and the motivation of mankind history,and inspects how mankind finally achieves permanent peace from the natural condition to the citizen society to world citizen society.The concept contains plentiful dialectical thought.It is the direct thought original of Hegel's "The scheme of reason",and one of the best value thought in German classical history philosophy.But it exists in historic limitation.