Immanuel Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace and its relevance to the war in Ukraine
- Written by: Paul Formosa, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE), Macquarie University
Refugees from Mariupol sit in a bus crossing the Ukraine-Russia border on March 15.Arkady Budnitsky/EPAA powerful European country invades a less powerful one. This is a story that German philosopher Immanuel Kant, while writing his essay Toward Perpetual Peace in 1795 in Prussian Königsberg (now a Russian territory on the Baltic Sea called...
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