Resumen de Empire and natural order in Kant's 'second thoughts' on race
The revival of scholarship on Kant's late political thought has coincided with a burst of work on the philosopher's anthropology and his role in the advent of scientific racism. While his early views on race are well documented, published and archival evidence suggests that Kant may have attenuated his views on a natural hierarchy of races late in life, approximately coincident with his turn to expanding on his republican cosmopolitanism. This article argues that the unexplained shift was not the product of a change in Kant's political views, but rather that both shifts were a product of a reconfiguration of the role of teleology in his philosophy of history and natural law.
