Guarantee for Perpetual Peace

Abstract

On Kant's account, at the national level, a rightful order presupposes a republican constitution. At the international level, a set of laws are needed to regulate interactions between states. Finally, as citizens of the earth, rather than as members of particular states, persons have rights protected by cosmopolitan law. Such a complex rightful condition, Kant claims, should emerge through gradual reform and involves changes in all areas of life, particularly in politics and education, but also socially, for instance, in the sphere of religious belief. Although in places Kant suggests that this process can be brought about more speedily by the concerted actions of citizens and states, he also suggests that there is a guarantee that it will inevitably happen. The aim of this panel is to elucidate the epistemic status of this guarantee, which seems incompatible with the limits Kant places on his system.

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