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Kant's Principles of Politics, including his Essay on Perpetual Peace
Kant's Principles of Politics, including his Essay on Perpetual Peace, by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Translator’s Introductionprose
- 02The Natural Principle of the Political Order.prose
- 03First Proposition.prose
- 04Second Proposition.prose
- 05Third Proposition.prose
- 06Fourth Proposition.prose
- 07Fifth Proposition.prose
- 08Sixth Proposition.prose
- 09Seventh Proposition.prose
- 10Eighth Proposition.prose
- 11Ninth Proposition.prose
- 12The Principles of Political Right.prose
- 13The Principle of Progressprose
- 14Perpetual Peace. A Philosophical Essay. 1795, ‘The Perpetual Peace.’prose
- 151.: ‘No conclusion of Peace shall be held to be valid as such, when it has been made with the secret reservation of the prose
- 162.: ‘No State having an existence by itself—whether it be small or large—shall be acquirable by another State through inprose
- 173.: ‘Standing Armies shall be entirely abolished in the course of time.’prose
- 184.: ‘No National Debts shall be contracted in connection with the external affairs of the State.’prose
- 195.: ‘No State shall intermeddle by force with the Constitution or Government of another State.’prose
- 206.: ‘No State at war with another shall adopt such modes of hostility as would necessarily render mutual confidence impoprose
- 21Second Section which contains THE DEFINITIVE ARTICLES OF A PERPETUAL PEACE BETWEEN STATES.prose
- 22I.: First Definitive Article in the Conditions of Perpetual Peace. ‘The Civil Constitution in every State shall be Repubprose
- 23II.: Second Definitive Article in the conditions of a Perpetual Peace. ‘The Right of Nations shall be founded on a Federprose
- 24III.: Third Definitive Article in the conditions of a Perpetual Peace. ‘The Rights of men as Citizens of the world in a prose
- 25First Supplement. Of the Guarantee of Perpetual Peace.prose
- 26Second Supplement. Secret Article relating to Perpetual Peace.prose
- 27Appendix, I: On the Discordance between Morals and Politics in reference to Perpetual Peace.prose
- 28II: Of the Accordance of Politics with Morals according to the Transcendental Conception of Public Right.prose