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| Peace: Peace in political philosophy can be understood as a state of social and political harmony, characterized by the absence of violence, war, and injustice. Most political philosophers agree that it requires cooperation, trust, and a commitment to justice. See also Justice, Violence, War, Cooperation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Immanuel Kant on Peace - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 314 Peace/Kant/Höffe: In his writing on perpetual peace(1) Kant (...) remains with his purely secular thinking, removed from all theology and all daily politics. Conflicts: [Kant] does not expect that a basic political element, the conflict, can disappear from the world; rather, one should recognize it, but should provide it with a basic legal and moral foundation. Preparation for peace: Standing armies [are] to be gradually reduced [and] there is to be no violent interference in the constitution and government of other states (...). Conditions: [Here] Kant sketches a morally complete theory of public law. Its first article, on constitutional law, regulates the relations of individuals and groups to each other. Here Kant enriches the idea of peace with the political innovation of his epoch, the republic. >Republic/Kant, >">International Law/Kant. Relations between states: According to the general legal principle of jurisprudence, state-individuals are allowed to do for themselves what they want - provided that their actions can coexist with those of all other state-individuals according to a general law. Höffe I 315 International treaty: [To achieve this] a global peace community is necessary. This is created by a treaty between the nations and must end all wars forever. According to Kant, a world republic would be needed along the lines of the internal peacekeeping, but it would not be possible to achieve this without a global peace community. But because the states do not accept the necessary renunciations of sovereignty, he is content with a "negative surrogate", a League of Nations that is expanding more and more. Sceptical of a world republic, the peace treaty does not advocate a world legal order. Höffe I 318 Aftermath: Thoughts of Kant's peace writing influence the first global association of states for securing world peace and developing international cooperation, the League of Nations (1920-1946), as well as Höffe I 319 the new foundation for the United Nations. Human dignity, which plays a major role in their charter, essentially follows Kant's understanding of human dignity. Moreover, Kant's understanding extends into many national and international political debates, not least in court decisions of the highest courts not only in Germany, namely the constitutional courts. 1. Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, 1795_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
I. Kant I Günter Schulte Kant Einführung (Campus) Frankfurt 1994 Externe Quellen. ZEIT-Artikel 11/02 (Ludger Heidbrink über Rawls) Volker Gerhard "Die Frucht der Freiheit" Plädoyer für die Stammzellforschung ZEIT 27.11.03 Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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