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Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file

In 1785 Kant published Determination of the Concept of a Human Race. The instrument is that public essay continuing a hierarchical race file. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file
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In 1785 Kant published Determination of the Concept of a Human Race. The instrument is that public essay continuing a hierarchical race file. Immanuel Kant's documented role is: He published a second race essay in the Berlinische Monatsschrift neighbourhood. It is not a unique 2024 paper.

Context

The 1775 essay is the predecessor. Sharing the Berlin periodical public is required. Groundwork of 1785 is a different book in the same year. The setting of Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file is the public file around 1785-01-01. Driver income-inequality is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two dated essays. Mixed effects of Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file are separate paths.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file on 1785-01-01. A second public race-hierarchy essay is an inequality path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Immanuel Kant

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.48 · verified

    He published a second race essay in the Berlinische Monatsschrift neighbourhood. It is not a unique 2024 paper.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactDetermination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 January 1785 · verified

    A second public race-hierarchy essay is an inequality path.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant overview, works neighbourhoodInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant, life and works neighbourhood including race essaysStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant overview, works neighbourhood at https://iep.utm.edu/kantview/ (opens in a new tab) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant, writings neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant overview, works neighbourhood (https://iep.utm.edu/kantview/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Kant, writings neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: a sourced public record of Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file under 1785-01-01 for Immanuel Kant. Established: a sourced public record of Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file under 1785-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file. Naming Immanuel Kant does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1785-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorImmanuel Kant
  2. contributed toFactDetermination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) continues Kant's documented race-hierarchy file. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/kan-race-1785

https://factrail.ai/facts/kan-race-1785

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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