Perpetual Peace - Softcover

Kant, Immanual

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023077506 ISBN 13: 9780023077500

Publisher: Macmillan USA, 1957

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... actuated by less selfish impulses is apt to lose considerably more than it Even St. Pierre was alive to this danger (Projet, Art. VIII: in the English translation of 1714, p. 160):--"The Euiopean Union shall endeavour to obtain in Asia, a permanent society like that of Europe, that Peace may be maintain'd There also; and especially that it may have no cause to fear any Asiatic Sovereign, either as to its tranquillity, or its Commerce in Asia." f Bentham's suggestion would be useful here! See bove, p. 79, note. " The best thing for Kurope might be that Russia (perhaps including China) should be regarded as a serious danger by all the civilised powers of the West. That would bring us nearer to the United States of Europe anil America (for the United States, America, is Russia's neighbour on the East) than anything else. gains, and the feeling of the people expresses itself strongly against any quixotic or sentimental policy. It is not impossible that the Powers may have yet to intervene to protect Turkey against Russia. Such a step might well be dictated purely by a proper care for the security of Europe; but wars of this kind seem not likely to play an important part in the near future. We have said that the causes of difference which may be expected to disturb the peace of Europe are now fewer. A modern sovereign no longer spends his leisure time in the excitement of slaying or seeing slain. He could not, if he would. His honour and his vanity are protected by other means: they play no longer an important part in the affairs of nations. The causes of war can no more be either trifling or personal. Some crises there are, which are ever likely to be fatal to peace. There present themselves, in the lives of nations, ideal ends for which everything...

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From the Back Cover:

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher, with a philosophy that seems singularly unlikely to encourage a philosopher to take history seriously. The intelligible world under universal moral law and the world of nature under universal causal law seem the upper and lower millstones of this philosophy, between which all life would be crushed out of history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0023077506
• ISBN 13: 9780023077500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80