Eighth Thesis
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The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end." in the context of "Eighth Thesis" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784): Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784) as translated in ''''On History (1963) by Lewis White Beck; also translated as Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose'')
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