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This book proposes an account of the place of the theory of race, in Kant’s thinking as a central part of the role of philosophical anthropology in his political system. It is maintained that Kant’s theory of race is integral to the study of the “Charakteristik” of the human species which he defines as a “way of cognizing the interior of the human being from the exterior,” and which is determined by human natural predispositions. The understanding of his theory as the study of the “Charakteristik” of the human species suggests not only an alternative reading to the orthodox narrative we have seen so far but also reveals the underlying centrality of the notion of human natural predispositions in a way that is consequential for Kant’s philosophy as a whole. From a systematic examination of Kant relevant writings, this book sheds the light on two fundamental problems of Kant's theory of race for moral philosophy, namely: (1) the completeness of the character of the White race and (2) the dispossession of the character of the beauty and the dignity of human nature of the Negro’s race. These two issues, unperceived by the “orthodox” reading’, shape Kant’s race thinking from the beginning to the end of his career and affect his conception of the cosmopolitan right to the point of transforming it into a non-universalist form of right.