Kant on the Political Obligation of Philosophers: Reading the Secret Article in Toward Perpetual Peace.
This paper offers an interpretive framework for understanding Kant's "secret article" in Toward Perpetual Peace as contributing to a three-step transition toward a republican constitution. First, rulers permit philosophers to speak freely and publicly and learn from them in secret. Second, rulers ex...
| Publicado en: | Filozofia Vol. 80; no. 6; pp. 855 - 869 |
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