Eternal Peace: And Other International EssaysWorld peace foundation, 1914 - 179 páginas |
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according antagonism Arctic Ocean arises attain becomes belongs bring capacities implanted cause citizens civil constitution civil union coercion common commonwealth compact compel compulsion compulsory laws conception condition conformable consequently cosmopolitical despotic determine duty earth essay established Eternal Peace evil existing external relations fact federation founded give happiness HARVARD COLLEGE Hence hostilities human nature human race idea of right Immanuel Kant individual international law judgment juridical Kant Kant's law of nations legislative power liberty mankind maxims means ment merely mode moral mutual national law object original contract perfect rational perpetual peace person philosophers Philosophy of Law political constitution possession possible practical principles of right problem proposition public law purpose question realization reason regarded regulated by law rela republic republican require ruler science of right secured social society sovereign species supreme power theory things three powers Tibet tion treaty violence whole wrong
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Página 175 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Página 175 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Página 3 - Thus did she bring forth a Kepler who, in an unexpected way, reduced the eccentric paths of the planets to definite laws; and then she brought forth a Newton, who explained those laws by a universal natural cause. First Proposition: All the capacities implanted in a creature by nature, are destined to unfold themselves, completely and conformably to their end, In the course of time.
Página 95 - Hence the mechanism of nature, working through the selfseeking propensities of man (which of course counteract one another in their external effects), may be used by reason as a means of making way for the realisation of her own purpose, the empire of right, and, as far as is in the power of the state, to promote and secure in this way internal as well as external peace. We may say, then, that it is the irresistible will of nature that right shall at last get the supremacy.
Página viii - The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution internally and, for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
Página 5 - PROPOSITION /Nature has willed that man shall produce wholly out of himself all that goes beyond the mechanical structure and arrangement of his animal existence, and that he shall participate in no other happiness or perfection than that which he has procured for himself, apart from instinct, by his own reason.
Página viii - The means which nature employs to bring about the development of all the capacities implanted in men is their mutual antagonism in society, but only so far as this antagonism becomes at length the cause of an order among them that is regulated by law.
Página 129 - The civil union may therefore be regarded not so much as being, but rather as making a society. 42. The Postulate of Public Right From the conditions of private right in the natural state, there arises the postulate of public right. It may be thus expressed: "In the relation of unavoidable coexistence with others, thou shalt pass from the state of nature into a juridical union constituted under the condition of a distributive justice.
Página 70 - The facility given by this system for engaging in war, combined with the inclination of rulers toward it (an inclination which seems to be implanted in human nature), is, therefore, a great obstacle in the way of a perpetual peace. The prohibition of it must be laid down as a preliminary article in the conditions of such a peace, even more strongly on the further ground that the national bankruptcy, which it inevitably brings at last, would necessarily involve in the disaster many other States without...