Original scientific paper
HEGEL AND KANT'S NOTION OF PERPETUAL PEACE
Danilo Pejović
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In accordance with his practical philosophy which views the essence of morality and right as "ought to" (Sollen), Kant deduces his notion of perpetual peace as the paragon of the relationship among rulers and states. Hegel's criticism of this view in his Philosophy of Law points to its three major flaws. The first is the very nature of the international legal system which operates among independent states and whose sanctions do not provide a supra-sovereignty of a pan-international state. Furthermore, treaties and agreements among states have no praetor and do not exclude war as "the natural state" among them. And finally, there is no universal international will, but only particular wills of individual states which hardly achieve a consensus on war and peace. As a postulate of practical reason, perpetual peace remains a sheer ideal.
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105847
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Publication date:
4.10.1996.
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