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Cultural Differentiation and incorrupt OrientationIn strain with his major honorable works, Kants literary works on history be replete with the theme of the favorable causa of clean-living development and the interdependency of individual and community. I argue that historical-moral near is an important part of Kants comprehensive ethical theory. However, in shape to link the moral goals of humanity with the moral goals of individuals, judgement must channelise on a dimension that can apprehend the purposiveness of those human achievements which are tender in their significance and socially transmitted. In other words, such achievements pop off individual intention. The historical signs of such moral purposiveness provide moral taste through the conflicting claims that arise within and between complex and historically evolving human communities. I explore the role of disinterested judgement in providing this orientation and in marking the moral disposition of the speci es.In contrast with his major ethical works, Kants writings on history are replete with the theme of the social character of moral development and the interdependence of individual and community. Assuming for the moment that in some fundamental sense, moral decision making is an individual matter, how does the social context of human livelihood affect morality? In particular what is the significance of the fact that our social structures are constituted over time? The thesis of this paper is that Kants envision on the nature of historical-moral progress is an important part of his comprehensive ethical theory. It sets the rational basis for the individuals moral obligation to promote the highest good by providing a moral orientation to guide her through the conflicting clai... ...al reassign is that while we can adjust our judgments concerning the culpability of past agents to their differing conditions, we cannot reverse or relativize our conception of what is right.(23) Kant, Immanuel, An Old Question Raised Again, translated by Robert E. Anchor, in On History, op. cit., p. 144 (85).(24) Kant, Immnauel, What is Enlightenment, translated by Lewis White Beck, in On History, op. cit., pp.4-5 In discussing the differences between the national and private uses of reason Kant makes point of reference to the possibility that on some occasions the individual will take the point of view of a society of world citizens . Thus, the appropriate public can be extended across national boundaries as hale as across time. (25) Kant, Immnauel, Idea for a Universal History, translated by Lewis White Beck, in On History, op cit., p. 24 (30), footnote 7.