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Zum ewigen Frieden
Immanuel Kant · 1795
Kant's 1795 philosophical essay on perpetual peace between states, heard here in a modern volunteer audio reading in German.
This is Kant's own essay on perpetual peace, read aloud by a modern volunteer narrator rather than in his own voice.
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What it is
This is Immanuel Kant's essay Zum ewigen Frieden (Toward Perpetual Peace), written in 1795 in Königsberg. The recording offered here is a modern volunteer reading of the German text, not Kant's own voice.
Why it matters
In this essay Kant applies his moral philosophy to relations between states. He argues peace is not a natural condition but must be deliberately created, and that lasting peace requires states to submit to a shared system of international law. The work is an early and influential argument for international cooperation to prevent war.
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- Why might Kant have believed peace needs to be actively built rather than simply assumed?
- What does Kant mean by states submitting to binding international law, and does this idea sound familiar today?
- How does hearing the text read aloud change your experience of it compared to reading it silently?
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