An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation (Classic Reprint)

It is now some 122 years since Kant wrote the essay, Zum ewigen Frieden. Many things have happened since then, although the Peace to which he looked forward with a doubtful hope has not been among them. But many things have happened which the great critical philosopher, and no less critical spectator of human events, would have seen with interest. To Kant the quest of an enduring peace presented itself as an intrinsic human duty, rather than as a promising enterprise. Yet through all his analysis of its premises and of the terms on which it may be realised there runs a tenacious persuasion that, in the end, the regime of peace at large will be installed. Not as a deliberate achievement of human wisdom, so much as a work of Nature the Designer of things Natura daedala rerum. To any attentive reader of Kant smemorable essay it will be apparent that the title of the following inquiry On the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation is a descriptive translation of the caption under which he wrote. That such should be the case will not, it is hoped, be accounted either an unseemly presumption or an undue inclination to work under a oorrowed light. The aim and compass of any disinterested inquiry in these premises is still the same as it was in Kants time; such, indeed, as he in great part made it, viz., a systematic knowledge of things as they are.
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