THE WAR AS A MEANS OF PROVIDING PERPETUAL PEACE IN KANT
KANT'TA KALICI BARIŞI SAĞLAMANIN BİR ARACI OLARAK SAVAŞ

Author : Mustafa Kaya
Number of pages : 203-218

Abstract

Philosophy is concerned not only with abstract concepts and theoretical theories, but also with current problems of practical life. Kant, aware of this function of philosophy, has dealt with war and peace as an important issue, even a problem that today the future of the human kind depends on. Kant, with Hobbes, thinks that human nature is prone to do evil, so that man's natural state is not a state of peace but a state of war ready to explode at any moment. Hobbes, through his contract, conveys people from nature to the state, but this time leaves the state in anarchic nature; for this reason he thinks that the wars between the states will be uninterrupted. Kant uses dialectic and tries to show that conflicts between states can also end. To this end, Kant leaves him out of the anarchic nature of the states as the scenario of the departure from nature of Hobbes for humans. Kant expresses that a perpetual peace and a universal law can only be established through the understanding of the forceful and destructive effects of wars, even if it emphasizes the damage of war. Thus Kant instrumentalizes war for a higher purpose.

Keywords

War, Peace, State of Nature, State, Perpetual Peace

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