This is the partially examined life episode 295, part 2, talking about Kant's article,

professional piece, a philosophical sketch, as well as presumably in this part or in part

3 we'll get to talking about reactions to that by Martha Nussbaum, who connects the

stoicism and their very ancient idea of a cosmopolitan justice of a world order that we

are all world citizens. And then Habermas, who is using the 200 years of intervening

history to actually reflect on how well he thinks these practically worked. So I'm hoping

at least with Habermas, if something really related to one of these things comes to your

mind, chime in. I don't know if my notes or my memory of that essay are good enough

to just insert him at will, but we could.

Gotta insert some Habermas, we're needed. He is the secret sauce.

He had a really great model of how politics actually works in terms of an ongoing discussion

that there can be no, if I'm remembering, if I'm characterizing our past Habermas episode,

right? The guy who's about community activity, that is how the ongoing, not only local political

situation, but international political situation, there is no final solution in terms of like

a perpetual peace here that you could just say, now we have the right laws. And as long

as we impose that, like, no, everything is always under ongoing negotiation. So there's

some skepticism, not that it's not a good goal. It's a great goal. The second section,

the definitive articles of a perpetual peace between states, who's going to be very definitive,

but at least in looking at the secondary literature, there seem to be some tensions in the

text, things that he would like to happen. He would like there to be some sort of world

order, but he certainly doesn't want a world government and providence is going to bring

us all toward this world order. But yet, people have warlike natures in them. They're good

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