Towards Perpetual Peace – politics, culture and education
Unfortunately celebrating Kant’s Towards Perpetual Peace is as relevant as ever. 220 years after the first publication, despite of noteworthy progress in civility concerning strife, there are no signs that wars will simply disappear by themselves. As Kant emphasizes following Hobbes, apparently peace among human beings must still be “gestiftet” (Ak 8: 349), that is, established in some way. That means that something must be done, and that principles and arguments for that still need to be thought through thoroughly. Referring to the original and still inspiring arguments from Kant, the seminar addresses this issue critically in terms of practical philosophy in relation to politics, culture and education, i.e. in relation to the state, civil society and the family.
Oplysninger om arrangementet
Tidspunkt
Sted
Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, campus Copenhagen, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NW, aud. C001
Model
Research seminar with invited speakers and local audience. 30 min. presentation, 15 min. questions and discussion pr. person.
Program
11.00 Peter Kemp and Asger Sørensen: Welcome
11.15 Mogens Chrom Jacobsen: “An Apparent Paradox: to establish a Legal State is a Loose Duty”
12.00 Claudio Corradetti: “Kant's legacy and the idea of a 'transitional' jus cosmopoliticum”
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 Brian Milstein: “Global Consciousness, Injustice, and the Rigidities of 'Perpetual Peace’: An Attempt to Think with Kant beyond Kant.”
14.30 Break
14.45 Peter Niesen: “Cosmopolitan right as earth citizenship”
15.30 Carsten Fogh Nielsen: ””This ploy of secretive politics…” On the agreement and disagreement between politics and morality in Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace”
16.15 Coffee break
16.45 Jørgen Huggler: “Republicanism, democracy, Bildung. Friedrich Schlegel's critique of Kant”
17.30 End…
17.45 Real end!!
20.00 Dinner for the speakers
Substitute
Asger Sørensen: ”Federalism and Peace”
Speakers
- Mogens Chrom Jacobsen, Paris, dissertation on Kant's political philosophy, translator into Danish of TPP, publications on war and peace, habilitation on human rights
- Claudio Corradetti, works on Kant and cosmopolitanism
- Brian Millstein, book on Cosmopolitanism coming out and works on Kant.
- Peter Niesen, Hamburg University, is a co-editor of the Suhrkamp edition of Kant’s Perpetual Peace with sections from the Doctrine of Right (Berlin 2011). He has published on Bentham and Kant on freedom of speech and cosmopolitan right.
- Carsten Fogh Nielsen, works on Kant’s aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy
- Peter Kemp, works on cosmopolitanism, philosophy of law and ethics
- Jørgen Huggler, works on Kant, cosmopolitanism and culture
- Asger Sørensen, works on Kant and cosmopolitanism, peace and republicanism