KANT AND THE TELEOLOGY OF NATURE: ON THE AIM OF NATURE IN IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY WITH A COSMOPOLITAN AIM AND THE GUARANTEE OF NATURE IN TOWARD PERPETUAL PEACE

In Idea for a universal history in cosmopolitan intention (1784), Kant presents the concept of an intention of nature that gives meaning and purpose to the history of humanity.The concept of this intention is a regulative idea of theoretical reason, and is then grounded by the doctrine Cultural Art of these ideas presented by Kant in his Critique o

Abstract Background Severe traumatic stressors such as war, rape, or life-threatening accidents can result in a debilitating psychopathological development conceptualised as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).Pathological memory formation during an alarm response may set the precondition for PTSD to occur.If true, a lack of memory formation by ex

Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) analyses in immortal populations are a powerful method for exploring the genetic mechanisms that control interactions of organisms with their environment.However, QTL analyses frequently do not culminate in the identification of a causal gene due to the large chromosomal regions often underlying QTLs.A reasonable appro

Abstract Background Empagliflozin has been reported to protect endothelial cell function, regardless of diabetes status.However, the role of empagliflozin in microvascular protection during myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R) has not been fully understood.Methods Electron microscopy, western blots, immunofluorescence, qPCR, mutant plasmid

In this paper, I discuss the Monster Dab Rig legitimacy of positing a Transitivity Projection (= TrP cf.Bowers 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2002) in the BA construction in Mandarin Chinese.BA has been proposed to be a semantically-bleached verb, inserted in the v position (Huang 1997 and Lin 2001).Several pieces of evidence such as manner adverbial placeme