Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (Library of War & Peace)

by Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
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159 ratings, 3.75 average rating, 14 reviews (more data...)
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June 1st 1972 by Dissertations-Garland (first published 1795)

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cloth, 203 pages

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0824004744    (isbn13: 9780824004743)

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Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1795), 104 pp. 2nd expanded edition (Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1796…more


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Trevor
Dec 29, 2007
Trevor rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 159986861X)

I'm only half way through, but a terribly interesting little book. Kant essentially treats nations as persons and then applies his categorical imperitive, particularly its second formation from the Groundwork - treat people as ends, never means - as the basis for creating perpetual peace.

Very interesting point he makes about democracies being despotic by definition - but I think this is avoided by the notion of separation of powers. All the same, he has me thinking about this. His...more
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Juan Pablo
May 21, 2009
Juan Pablo rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 8420673382)

Read in May, 2009
Sobre la paz perpetua
"Esta inscripción satírica que un hostelero holandés había puesto en la muestra de su casa, debajo de una pintura que representaba un cementerio..." así, con un tono irónico, parte esta obra de Kant, que tiene un objetivo bastante ambicioso: plantear las condiciones necesarias para lograr la paz (a su juicio, decir "paz perpetua" es un pleonasmo: la paz siepre es perpetua, sino es sólo un armisticio).
Agunas consideraciones básica...more
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Poetra Boemi
Read in May, 2007
recommends it for: Political teory
Perdamaian Dunia yang Belum Gagal
Khayun Ahmad Noer
“Kondisi perang akhirnya akan membawa manusia pada satu kondisi di mana mereka memimpikan keadaan damai. Mereka menyebar ke berbagai penjuru dunia, mencari kedamaian atas tuntunan perang di bawah bimbingan alam...” Immanuel Kant (Zum Ewigen Frieden, 1795)
Muqaddimah
Orang lebih sering melihat Kant sebagai seorang moralis dan kritikus pengetahuan, daripada politikus yang menghasilkan sebuah mahakarya pemikiran politik. Ka...more
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Raj Bhaskar
Mar 07, 2010
Raj Bhaskar rated it: 3 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0872206912)

bookshelves: non-fiction, philosophy
Owns a copy — Read in March, 2010
In this short pamphlet, Kant lays out his thoughts on how to achieve permanent peace between nation states. Although I found some of it hard going, particularly the first supplement, some of it is very forward-looking, placing Kant very ahead of his time. He says, for example, that standing armies should be wound down and eventually abolished and that there should be no foreign debt between nations - ideas that are radical even today! Very interesting and thought-provoking stuff.
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Robin
Dec 16, 2008
Robin rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

Read in September, 2006
brilliant!
the predicition of the peace course the world would take by one of it's greatest geniuses! So far he's been absolutely right, and with the nuke now publicly available we have to follow his path to avoid annihilation!
If he'd only have written a bit more skilled in terms of writing a readable piece. Well, he was a mathsteacher after all.
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Wiro Sableng Al-Maryamiyyah
buku risalah yang ditulis menjelang kematiannya ini, sangat jarang diperhatikan oleh pengkaji filsafat dan pemikiran Kant. risalah ini membicarakan mengenai persoalan rumusan perdamaian abadi antarnegara secara filsofis. dalam konteks (kewarga)negara(an), Kant sangat mendukung konsep kosmopolitan.

bagi Kant, persoalan perdamain tidak terletak pada persoalan moralitas. bangsa setan, yang disimbolkan sebagai makhluk tidak bermoral, pun dapat mewujudkan perdamaian ini. bagi Kant, perdama...more
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Leonardo Rodríguez
recommends it for: Lectores de novela negra
Compré este libro después de leer el estupendo libro de Hillman sobre la guerra. Lo vi pequeño, abordable, con una portada como de un Hopper germano, algo antiguo. Por alguna endemoniada razón, el libro se me perdió dentro de mi propia casa por mucho tiempo. Valió la pena reencontrarlo.
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Nate
Apr 10, 2009
Nate rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 159986861X)

Read in April, 2009
Well argued theories on international relations and the development of a lasting peace...

Kant's theories face problems due to his faith in the "intelligence and rationality" of the ruling elites...
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Mr.
Oct 07, 2008
Mr. rated it: 3 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

Find out how we will achieve peace through war and continual conflict. This is an important, though troubling work of political philosophy by the great thinker, though it is mediocre when compared to the historical dialectics of Hegel. For evidence of Kant's racism/ethnocentrism, read the section on Cosmopolitanism, in which Kant effectively excludes all humans outside of the Ancient Greece and the West from the human project. Well, one can't assume a great transcendental thinker will also be en...more
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Nisa
Sep 26, 2009
Nisa rated it: 2 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

Bacanya lieur....
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Steph
Mar 13, 2008
Steph rated it: 3 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

bookshelves: canon
Read in April, 2007
so i wasn't going to add this to my books but i felt like with all the embarrassed admissions i'd been making (romance, etc.), i needed to balance it out with proof that i have read substantive works as well - not that I understood any of this, but it sits on my shelf proudly and pretentiously.
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Zahreen
May 19, 2007
Zahreen rated it: 5 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

bookshelves: academic, classics
I love his essay on "Perpetual Peace" - everyone should read this essay - it would make the world a better place...no kidding. It's absolutely idealistic, but idealism is what this world needs - it certainly was what I needed freshman year of college, when I first read the essay.
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za
Sep 21, 2007
za rated it: 2 of 5 stars (review of isbn 3150015014)

Sejak kapan aku bisa bahasa Jerman? Buku ini aku beli edisi bilingual, Indonesia-Jerman. Penasaran dengan judulnya. Adakah perdamaian abadi?

PS: Belum sempat baca dengan baik. Nanti nulis lagi kalau sudah baca.
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Jay
Mar 02, 2007
Jay rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)

Read in May, 2005
recommends it for: Thinkers
Once you've got your tautologic ideas, your metaphyics, what do you do? You go into political theory! And Kant did this better, in my opinion, than anyone. Well, Hegel was no slouch either with his organic Fascism...
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Sarah
Mar 18, 2010
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Manola
Mar 05, 2010
Manola rated it: 4 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)


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Mar 02, 2010
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Samrowan
Feb 25, 2010
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Yann
Feb 23, 2010
Yann marked it as philosophy (review of isbn 0300110707)

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Margaret
Feb 22, 2010
Margaret rated it: 5 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0915145472)




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