
Immanuel Kant’s ”Perpetual Peace”
Theory & Philosophy
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The Second Fundamental Tip of Free States Existing With One Another
republican systems are going to be ruled by a minority of peoplen. Every single state has laws that dissuade people from committing violence against one another. They essentially legislate peace within their own rders. So he just extends that to a global system, to sa that we have this propensity not to inflict violence on other people according to various laws. Why can it not be applied to states? You can't encroach upon somebody's bodily autonomy. You can't steal from them, you can harm them. So why can a state do that to somebody else, or to another state?
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