*/ Perpetual Peace | Section 2 The Definitive Articles of a Perpetual Peace between States. A state of Peace among men who live side by side with each other, is not the natural state. The state of Nature is rather a state of War ; for although it may not always present the outbreak of hostilities, it is nevertheless continually

Perpetual Peace | Supplement 1 Of the Guarantee of Perpetual Peace. The guarantee of Perpetual Peace is furnished by no less a power than the great artist Nature herself. The mechanical course of Nature visibly exhibits a design to bring forth concord out of the discord of men, even against their will. This power as a cause working by laws

Perpetual Peace | Supplement 2 Secret Article relating to Perpetual Peace. A secret Article in transactions relating to Public Right when viewed objectively or as to its matter, is a contradiction. Viewed subjectively, however, and considered in reference to the quality of the Person who dictates it, it is possible that there may be a secret contained in it which

Perpetual Peace | Appendix 1 1. On the Discordance between Morals and Politics in reference to Perpetual Peace. The Science of Morals relates directly to practice in the objective sense, inasmuch as it is a system of unconditionally authoritative laws, in accordance with which we ought to act. It is therefore a manifest absurdity, after admitting the authority of this

Perpetual Peace | Appendix 2 2 Of the Accordance of Politics with Morals according to the Transcendental Conception of Public Right. We may think of Public Right in a formal way after abstracting from all the matters to which it is applied in detail, such as the different relations of men in the State, or of the States to each