About Perpetual Peace and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Dialog between Kant and Rousseau
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n47a02Keywords:
Cosmopolitism, Global Peace, Human Nature, General Will, Moral CommunityAbstract
This article, which later takes the form of a dialogue between Kant and Rousseau, presents some basic similarities and differences in their proposals for eternal peace and the cosmopolitan idea of the time. In the second half of the eighteenth century, Rousseau wrote a summarized and annotated version of the Abbot of Saint-Pierre’s project for perpetual peace. Kant, for his part, influenced by Rousseau, wrote his proposal for Eternal Peace. Kant is regarded by many as a cosmopolitan, whereas Rousseau is considered an anti-cosmopolitan. The aim of this article is to discuss the idea according to which both authors represent opposite poles in relation to cosmopolitanism, ,and to argue, through a dialogue between them, that they share the idea of a moral cosmopolitanism.
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