HUMA 1825 Lecture 4: Kant- Perpetual Peace 1
1 Feb 2019
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Kant: perpetual peace: explain why each of the six articles in the first section are necessary for thinking clearly about peace. See pages 93-97: no declaration of peace is valid if there are plans for future war, peace is there for truce and avoidance of war. It states that looking forward to future conflict is not peace. No state can exist independently it maybe acquired by another state by inheritance, exchange, purchase or gift: a state should not rely or depend on a society. Every society should be able to determine its own fate. The treaty should not be treated as a property meaning trading and violating its agency and turning it into a commodity. Moreover, dangerous actions such as marrying someone to combine states should be avoided. Standing armies will gradually be abolished: having armies will threaten other armies. Other staes might sense a possibility of war.
