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This is episode 295 part 3 still covering a manual concept perpetual piece.

We are starting all in the appendices.

The first appendix is about the disagreement between morals and politics in relation

to perpetual peace, which on first reading sounds like a really odd thing for him to be

thinking about and talking about what is it about politics and morality that in particular

in opposition.

But really what he's thinking about is he's thinking about pragmatic, political, hypothetical

thinking, hypothetical reasoning, real politic.

He's thinking about things in practical terms and I have such and such a goal I want to

accomplish and here's how I get there and it could be even a utilitarian goal for the

sake of the good of society, but it could also be more nefarious political goals, the self-interest

of political actors and morality has to do with contiant obligation.

What it is that we know that we ought to do a priori.

So the question is when do those things conflict?

He kind of started this whole thing by alluding to this, the idea that well, a lot of people

say this goes to his theory and practice essay as well, right?

A lot of people say, well, this pie-and-lick sky morality, that's not really practically

implementable.

We have to be real if we're going to do politics.

This is a dangerous world and all that stuff.

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