Human Race, History, Rationality

As has been previously discussed, in Kant's system, Rationality and Peace are co-extensive, i. e. universal Rationality and universal Peace are in an Inner-Outer relation.  Likewise, the Cosmopolity that is the telos of History is the appearance of the Kingdom of Ends.  However, there is one discrepancy between the two concepts.  The "cosmopolitan point of view" is also the "standpoint of the human race", entailing the existence of the human race as a concrete unity.  But, there is no corresponding concrete unity in the Kingdom of Ends, which is constituted by only distinct Rational beings.  So, though he briefly envisions a unification of the human race, it is one that transcends the resources of his system, the attainment of which should transform the Atomist presuppositions of the latter.