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    Perpetual Peace ..Is it a Reality? September 9‚ 2013 World Politics The question of how do me men live in peace is an age-old delima. Two significant philosophers ‚ Kant and Thucydides‚ make some very significant and contrasting views on the nature of peace and man’s propensity to go to war. Kant‚ writing during the 18th century ‚ and Thucydides‚ an Athenian‚ commentating some 2000 years earlier during the 5th century BC are coming from very different experiences

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    other. Major wars in the past Century have not been fought between two democratic nations‚ for example the wars in both Vietnam and Korea were fought against two communist dictatorships. In 1999 (Rudolph J Rummel)‚ while writing for the magazine Peace argued that a “Democracy is a general cure for political or collective violence of any kind.” He went on further to argue that a key to a Democracy is having regular elections and having multiple political parties that are competitive. With this argument

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    Conflicting ethics and unexpected guests In his Perpetual PeaceKant expounds upon the concept of cosmopolitical rights‚ founded on the right of visit belonging to every human being. The key factor here is the notion of hospitality: every individual has the right “not to be treated as an enemy when he arrives in the land of another” . This perspective leads to a series of considerations. The first consideration concerns the nature of hospitality. It is directed towards the foreigner‚ the ’other’

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    Perpetual Motion I will be researching perpetual motion and why it is said to be impossible. The reason I chose this topic is because I remember learning the laws of thermodynamics in my eighth grade science class. After explaining these laws‚ the teacher added‚ “…and that is why perpetual motion machines are impossible.” Since we have been studying related topics such as motion‚ gravity‚ and friction‚ I figure it would be a great time to learn specifically why it is considered impossible

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    Perpetual Pavements North Dakota Asphalt Conference Bismarck‚ ND April 6‚ 2010 Perpetual Pavement • Not a new concept –Full-Depth –Deep Strength –Mill & Fill MS-1 Perpetual Pavement Principles } 1.5 - 3” SMA‚ OGFC or Superpave 4” Zone to Of High 6” Compression Max Tensile Strain High Modulus Rut Resistant Material (Varies As Needed) Flexible Fatigue Resistant Material 3 - 4” Pavement Foundation Fatigue and Rutting HMA Repeated Bending Leads

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    really skilled at something in general. While in philosophy‚ Kant defines genius as follow‚ ‘Genius is the talent (natural gift) that gives the rule to art [...] Genius is the inborn predisposition of the mind through which nature gives the rule to art’; ‘Beautiful art must necessarily be considered as art of genius’. (§46) To Kant‚ it is like beautiful art cannot live without genius‚ because beautiful art is the art of genius. As Kant mentioned‚ genius cannot be imitated‚ it is a special ability

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    Explain the difference between transcendental realism (using Leibniz and Hume as examples) and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Why does Kant call his turn to transcendental idealism a “Copernican Revolution”. Transcendental realism claims that the world exists independently of human subjectivity. It also claims that the human thought or perception has no influence and does not effect the way world exists and cannot be interpreted by the way people interpret it. Transcendental realism relies

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    t Kant: Critique of Pure Reason There have been many philosophical perspectives and debates held throughout the centuries on the foundations of human knowledge. The stand points that both Descartes and Locke have differ and both of these philosophers’ perspectives have contributed to the rational and empirical debate about the foundations of human knowledge. Descartes’ understanding of the foundations of human knowledge takes on a rational viewpoint and has lead to Locke’s response of an empirical

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    Kant: Reasons and Causes‚ Morality and Religion Kant was a deontologist who believed that knowledge was created by the mind‚ not external factors; because of this he wanted to unite reason and experience. Humanity’s frail nature was the human condition according to Kant‚ their struggle to make moral decisions and do the right thing can only be solved by employing reason and his three maxims when decision making. Kant’s diagnoses the human condition as human’s frailty and impurity when

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    Kant how are imperatives possible” In this passage Kant is stating is believes about imperatives by saying that in order to make a morally correct decision‚ there is a universal law that complies with all humans that can rationally think ‚ this law is not based upon humans own desires. Kant imperatives deal with universality consequently he stated that it is immoral if a rule cannot be made into something that all humankind can follow. For example if I say "I will never keep my promises"‚ this

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