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Progress, Human Rights and Peace in Luigi Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2019

Howard Williams
Howard Williams*
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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Email: WilliamsH58@cardiff.ac.uk
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Abstract

In recent decades a great deal of attention has been given to Kant’s writings on politics as presenting a possible path to lasting peace. In this literature too high an expectation is created over what Kant’s cosmopolitan thinking might achieve. Caranti’s book provides an excellent antidote to these speculations by spelling out clearly the implications of Kant’s peace theory. I suggest there may even be better ways for understanding the guarantee of perpetual peace, the role of religion and the ideal of the moral politician than Caranti maintains.

Keywords

international relationsdemocratic peacemoral politicianguaranteereligionperpetual peace
Type
Research Article
Information
Kantian Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 263 - 273
Copyright
© Kantian Review, 2019 

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References

Caranti, L. (2017) Kant’s Political Legacy: Human Rights, Peace, Progress. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.Google Scholar
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