Kant: Perpetual Peace (1795).
Discuss all these topics with your group and share
your opinion with the rest of the class.
Explore the notion of “secret treaty” and its
role in Kant’s argument.
What is your opinion about article #2? ("No
independent states, large or small, shall come
under the dominion of another state by inheritance,
exchange, purchase, or donation").
What is your opinion about article #3? ("Standing
armies shall in time be totally abolished").
Explain article #4: "National debts shall not be
contracted with a view to the external friction of states".
Article #5 says: "No state shall by force interfere with
the constitution or government of another state".
Article #6: Against dishonorable strategies in war.
Reflect on the three “Definitive Articles”:
I.—"The civil constitution of each state shall be
republican."
II.—"The law of nations shall be founded on a federation
of free states."
III.—"The rights of men, as citizens of the world, shall be
limited to the conditions of universal hospitality."
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