The War and Peace between Ideal and Reality:Shift from Kant's Perpetual Peace to Rawls'The Law of Peoples
The issue of war and peace best reveals the gap between ideal and reality.It is precisely on the matter of war and peace thatemerges the most striking and perhaps the most ironic contrast between the ideal and the reality for humanity.Therefore,particular attention needs to be paid to feasible rules in this study.With the help of Kant and Rawls,two philosophers two hundred years apart,an attempt can be made to examine the principles,norms and their justifications of war and peace in the relationship between the ideal and the reality.In 1795,Kant published his Perpetual Peace,in which he discussed the preliminary articles,the definitive articles and the guarantee of perpetual peace.Between 1993 and 1998,Rawls completed his The Law of Peoples,elaborating on the basic ideas and various principles of the law of peoples.While focusing on the comparison and justification of these principles and norms,reference can also be made to historical verification and reflections on human nature.
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