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Immanuel Kant’s ”Perpetual Peace”

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The Secret Article - Relating to Perpetual Peace

We have a natural proclivity towards order and towards reducing conflict, because conflict goes against what it would mean to be a humanity. Anden we don't want that. We want co operation. We want communication. So even though the cards are stacked against us as humans to actually be able to form community, to form meaning and to really find an order within the world, we can do it. That puts us here into the second supplement, the secret article. Relating to perpetual peace. All he says here is that states can engage in secrecy if that secrecy is used to forward the project of perpetual peace.

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