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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 295: Kant on Preventing War (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795).

Do nations have the "right" to go to war? What principles ground just international relations, and are there structures and agreements that we can embrace to prevent prevent future wars?

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0:00.0

Here listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

0:11.4

said I'm doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

0:14.2

Our question for episode 295 is something like how can peace on earth be possible when

0:19.8

we read Emmanuel Kant's essay, Perpetual Peace at Philosophical Sketch in 1795.

0:25.0

Most commentaries on that article from 1995 by Martha Nussbaum and Björgen Habermas.

0:30.4

For more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

0:33.4

This is Mark Linsonmire, regrettably asserting my rights by force within a state of nature

0:37.5

in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:39.0

This is Wes Allwen trying not to pray on my smaller neighbors and Cambridge Massachusetts.

0:45.4

This is Dylan Casey sharpening the knives of conflict between morality and politics on

0:50.1

the wetstone of virtue.

0:53.3

Before we begin, Mark accused me of being borderline misleading and saying I was a good seminar.

1:00.3

Optimistic to borderline.

1:02.3

I see even more worse than misleading.

1:04.3

Actually Kant talks about this difference between just being misleading, being borderline

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misleading.

1:10.2

But no, you're right.

1:11.2

Which is I shouldn't promise that I'm going to do a seminar after every show.

1:14.3

Again, I'll advertise them on wessallwen.com and at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

1:19.2

There's seminars just go there to see if there's going to be a seminar for the show sometimes

1:23.0

there's not going to be enough interest.

1:24.0

I don't think there's going to be enough interest with Klein to actually do a seminar, but occasionally

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