Toward Perpetual Peace #9

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I was hoping we could get through Toward a Perpetual Peace, but we're still working through that last Appendix. READ FOR NEXT TIME For next time, please finish the book. And I recommend getting started on our next book: Religion Within the Bounds of Reason. In Perpetual Peace Finish Appendix II That is, read paragraphs 8:370 thru 8:386, which comprise Pages 338 thru 351 in Cambridge's Kant's Practical Philosophy Also, get started on Religion Within the Bounds of Reason Read Pages 52 and 53 of Translator's Introduction of the Cambridge edition IF YOU HAVE IT. Don't worry if you don't have it. It's only three paragraphs which we will read together live at the meeting. ALSO also read the Prefaces to the first and second editions and Read Part One Concerning the indwelling ofthe evil principle alongside the good or Of the radical evil in human nature. You can stop just before the Remark. That is, read 6:3 - 6:22 Pages 52, 53, 57-71 in Cambridge Kant's Religion and Rational Theology COMING UP 11/01/26 - Final Session: Finish Appendices 11/15/26 - Start Religion Within the Bounds of Reason 11/29/26 - Finish prefaces in Religion THE PRELIMINARY ARTICLES 1\. Peace treaties should be entered into in good faith\. 2\. Nations are not properties to be inherited or received as a gift\. 3\. No standing armies\. 4\. No national debt for war\. 5\. No state shall interfere in the governing of another state\. 6\. No atrocities that would make a peace treaty impossible\. THREE DEFINITIVE ARTICLES 1\. Nations should be republic \(right of state\) 2\. Nations should form a league of nations \(right of nations\) 3\. Nations should allow visitors from other countries\, and visitors to other countries should not exploit their hosts \(cosmopolitan right\)\. FIRST SUPPLEMENT - Nature will guarantee a perpetual peace (but we may not like how it does that). PARKING LOT I added two new questions that came up with the last meeting. If anyone wants to take a stab at answering them, they're down here in the parking lot. If you are familiar to the Kant group and want to give a presentation on your answer, let me know. I welcome the opportunity to give others some presentation time. https://open.substack.com/pub/kantandkoffee/p/parking-lot?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true RESOURCES OUR FIRST "TOWARD A PERPETUAL PEACE" RESOURCE!! If you are able, check this out and see if it makes any sense. Tell me where I might be going wrong. https://kantandkoffee.substack.com/p/reconciling-self-interest-with-the?r=2rot22&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Below are resources for understanding Critique of Judgment. https://kantandkoffee.substack.com/s/philosophy-of-immanuel-kant