Peace in a Cosmopolitan Context

Abstract

According to Kant, perpetual peace is the highest political good. He introduces this idea not in his famous essay "Toward Perpetual Peace", but in the "Metaphysics of Morals", more exactly in the Doctrine of Right, in the Conclusion to Chapter III, Cosmopolitan Right. As the highest political good, this ideal presupposes several requirements, some of them quite demanding, yet, Kant maintains, not impossible. For instance, perpetual peace presupposes rightful orders at the national, international and cosmopolitan levels. The aim of this panel is to evaluate the importance of the cosmopolitan project for Kant's idea of perpetual peace.

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