Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise.

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The focus is on Kant's twofold pronouncement that thoughts without content are empty and that intuitions without concepts are blind. I show that intuitions as singular representations are not instances of passive data intake but the result of synthetic unification of the given manifold of the senses by the power of the imagination under the guidance of the understanding. Against McDowell I argue that the amenability of intuitions

The essay investigates the anthropological foundations of Kant's political thought. Section 1 argues for the mutually supplementary relation between the critical theory of reason and the natural history of reason in Kant. Section 2 deals with the implied politics of Kant's anthropology focusing on the relation between nature and culture. Section 3 addresses the human social character, in particular the dual process of the civilization and the moralization of human beings, in Kant. Section 4 presents the political vocation of the human being elucidating the paradoxical relation between good and evil and the role of civic republicanism in Kant's political anthropology.