In 1795 Immanuel Kant published an essay entitled "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch." The immediate occasion for the essay was the March 1795 signing of the Treaty of Basel by Prussia and revolutionary France, which Kant condemned as only "the suspension of hostilities, not a peace." In the essay, Kant argues that it is humankind's immediate duty to solve the problem of violence and enter into the cosmopolitan ideal of a universal community of all peoples governed by the rule of law.The essay's two-hundredth anniversary, 1995, also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II and of the establishment of the Charter of the United Nations. The essays in this volume were written for a conference held in Frankfurt in May 1995 to commemorate these three anniversaries. Together, the authors argue for the continued theoretical and practical relevance of the cosmopolitan ideals of Kant's essay. They also show that history has both confirmed and outstripped Kant's prognoses. As recent events have shown, we certainly have not emerged from the violence of the state of nature. Accelerating globalization also gives these reconstructions and reappraisals of Kant's cosmopolitan ideal a new urgency.Contributors : Karl-Otto Apel, Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman, Jürgen Habermas, David Held, Axel Honneth, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Thomas McCarthy, Martha Nussbaum.
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Chris MacDonald, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was lead author for the Canadian Bioethics Society's "Model Code of Ethics for Bioethics."
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transcendental pragmatic transformation, cosmopolitan public sphere, cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan democratic law, negative substitute, contractus originarius, peace compact, historical prognosis, nonliberal societies, world public sphere, nonideal theory, cosmopolitan order, global constitutionalism, moral trap, cosmopolitan right, classical international law, modern natural law, universal hospitality, world republic, cosmopolitan model, reasonable pluralism, perpetual peace, international civil society, moral universalism, cosmopolitan democracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Metaphysics of Morals, Two Hundred, Security Council, Soviet Union, Preliminary Articles, Doctrine of Right, Immanuel Kant, Karl-Otto Apel, Universal History, World War, Cold War, General Assembly, Harvard University Press, United States, Carl Schmitt, Critique of Pure Reason, John Rawls, Marcus Aurelius, Therapy of Desire, Eastern Europe, Jurgen Habermas, Bernard Williams, Roman Stoics, Third World New!
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Written in 1795 and slightly revised in 1796, Immanuel Kant's essay "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" begins with a remark about the irony of its title. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transcendental pragmatic transformation, cosmopolitan public sphere, cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan democratic law, negative substitute, contractus originarius, peace compact, historical prognosis, nonliberal societies, world public sphere, nonideal theory, cosmopolitan order, global constitutionalism, moral trap, cosmopolitan right, classical international law, modern natural law, universal hospitality, world republic, cosmopolitan model, reasonable pluralism, perpetual peace, international civil society, moral universalism, cosmopolitan democracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Metaphysics of Morals, Two Hundred, Security Council, Soviet Union, Preliminary Articles, Doctrine of Right, Immanuel Kant, Karl-Otto Apel, Universal History, World War, Cold War, General Assembly, Harvard University Press, United States, Carl Schmitt, Critique of Pure Reason, John Rawls, Marcus Aurelius, Therapy of Desire, Eastern Europe, Jurgen Habermas, Bernard Williams, Roman Stoics, Third World New!
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