Metaphysics of history - A new turn in Kant's criticism

The paper examines Kant's philosophy of history as an organic part of his p hilosophical heritage. One of Kant's "small writing" Idea of an Universal H istory from a Cosmopolitan Point of View is seen as the essential work of h is philosophy of history, which discloses Kant's scientific and theoretical attitude, aiming at the constitution of the basic model of his conception of the philosophy of history. The argument is designed to show that Kant's philosophy of history is not a static conception and that we can discern a sort of internal dynamics inside it, related to his considerations of the p resent condition of humankind and resulting in the formulating of apriori p rinciples of freedom, equality and autonomy as the foundations of Kant's le gal state.