Kant On History and Culture as a Means to Ethical Evolution - The Imaginative Conservative

Kant On History and Culture as a Means to Ethical Evolution - The Imaginative Conservative

Culture, for Immanuel Kant, should be understood not as an aesthetic pursuit of the transcendentals, but as overarching basis for the moral improvement of all humans. The “Conjectural Beginning of Human History”[1] is Kant’s attempt to recast the creation story of Genesis. The procreative act of Yahweh is cooperative in the sense heaven and earth are combined, as well as the essence of the Divine and humankind. According to Genesis 2:4, creation…