The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace (Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant)

"This Element addresses three questions about Kant's guarantee thesis by examining the 'first addendum' of his Philosophical Sketch: how the guarantor powers interrelate, how there can be a guarantee without undermining freedom and why there is a guarantee in the first place. Kant's conception of an interplay of human and divine rational agency encompassing nature is crucial: on moral grounds, we are warranted to believe the 'world author' knew that if he were to bring about the world, the 'supreme' good would come about too. Perpetual peace is the condition that enables the supreme good to be realized in history"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Title page 3 Copyright page 4 The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace 5 Contents 6 1 Introduction 7 2 The Guarantee Addendum 12 2.1 Preliminaries 12 2.2 The Guarantor Powers 14 2.3 The Guarantee Thesis 19 2.4 Varieties of Cooperation 22 2.4.1 Providence and Nature 23 2.4.2 Concursus and Nature 29 2.4.3 Moral Self-Perfection and Grace 33 2.5 Contexts 35 3 The Guarantor Powers and Freedom 37 3.1 Facets of the Problem of Freedom 37 3.2 Kant’s Altered Law Compatibilism 40 3.3 Intelligible Characters and Counterfactuals of Freedom 44 3.4 Multifaceted Compatibility 50 4 Freedom and the Guarantee 53 4.1 The Guarantee of the Objective Ultimate End 54 4.2 The Path toward the Objective Ultimate End 57 4.3 The Ethical Commonwealth and Perpetual Peace 60 5 Concluding Remarks 65 Abbreviations 67 Bibliography 68 Acknowledgments 77 This Element tries to answer three questions about Kant's guarantee thesis by examining the 'first addendum' of his Philosophical Sketch: how the guarantor powers interrelate, how there can be a guarantee without undermining freedom, and why there is a guarantee in the first place.