Original scientific paper
A MOMENTOUS JUBILEE
Hajo Schmidt
; University of Fern, Hagen, Germany
Abstract
On the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of Kant's Treatise on perpetual peace, the author attempts to evoke and actualize that classic of modern philosophy of politics. According to Hajo Schmidt, the strong point of Kant's concept was his realism which prevented him from slipping into intellectual, utopian idealization of human nature and political relations among people. Having in mind not only the rational but also irrational aspects of human nature, i.e. the insuperable chasm between good and evil, Kant in that respect offers edifying peacemaking propositions. This he achieves by advocating the concepts of free individuals, independent national states and the cosmopolitan unity of humankind. These three moments make up the content of Kant's concept of republicanism. Their identity and plurality are the foundations of the world peace.
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106020
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Publication date:
16.1.1996.
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