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Continuity of Political Philosophy: War and Peace in Secularized Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Francisco S. Naishtat
Francisco S. Naishtat*
Affiliation:
University of Buenos Aires
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I propose to examine here, at the outset, what I call the asymmetry in Thomas Hobbes's thought between his treatment of civil war and war between states, that is to say, between the departure from the state of nature - when that is a condition prevailing between individuals - and the permanency in the state of nature when it forms a condition existing between states. Secondly, I will address the Kantian progression beyond this asymmetry through the dual introduction of the idea of progress and of ‘cosmo-political’ peace. The attention given in recent years by Habermas to the Kantian idea of perpetual peace [Habermas, 1996], the recent events in Kosovo and Chechnya, and their implications for the shape of an international penal tribunal to judge crimes against humanity, invigorate the questions of civil peace and of rights which transcend state frontiers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 48 , Issue 192 , December 2000 , pp. 76 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2000

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