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60: Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Kant's Principle of Universal Laws

Kant says we have to consider whether our actions depend on any principles which if made universal would logically undermine the very basis of that action. He talks about false promising or borrowing money without the intention of paying back as an example. We wouldn't even be able to imagine that institutions of lending would exist if that were the case, he argues.

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