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Summarize Kant’s and Habermas’ arguments for their positions. (Kant’s Idea of Perpetual Peace)
Prompt: In a short book first published in 1795, To Perpetual Peace, Immanual Kant suggests a possible series of historical events which could, he argues, lead to a “league of nations” and, ultimately, to a world without war between nations.
In a 1995 essay, the philosopher Jurgen Habermas offers a critique of Kant’s discussion and then reformulates his proposal for a perpetual peace in term appropriate for the contemporary world. (This critique and reformulation is mostly in Parts II and III of his essay, on pages 171 – 186 of “Kant’s idea of Perpetual Peace,” as printed in his book The Inclusion of the Other. In Part IV of this essay, pages 186 – 193, Habermas responds to potential objections to his view.)
In your own words, summarize Kant’s and Habermas’ arguments for their positions. How do Kant and Habermas agree? How do they disagree?
Finally, briefly comment critically on the two positions.