Sunday, November 6, 2016

Reason and Peace

In Kant's system there are two teloses for the human race--universal peace and rationality.  These are not two distinctly existing goals, but two perspectives of one and the same condition.  A peaceful society is a rational society, and a rational society is a peaceful society.  Furthermore, according to Kant, the relation between the two is not merely a happenstance equivalence, but a logical bi-conditional--Peace only if Reason, and Reason only if Peace.  In other words, Universal Peace and Kingdom of Ends are related as outer and inner.

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