Gustav Shpet’s Critique of Kant’s “History”
... a science. An undeniable merit of Shpet’s investigation is that he demonstrates the historical context of Kant’s views — to which end he brings in the works of Christian Wolff, Christian August Crusius, Georg Friedrich Meier, Johann Gottfried Herder, and other European thinkers — analysing, as well, the Kantian concept of mankind (Menschheit). But Shpet does not clearly distinguish Kant’s conception of history as an historical process (Geschichte), and historical science. Further, he pays ...
