Kant's Idea of Eternal Peace and the European Union

Kantova idea věčného míru a Evropská unie

Ján Pavlík

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2004, vol. 2004, issue 2, 11-39

Abstract: Kant's concept of human progress towards eternal peace, considerably influenced by A. Smith's theory of "invisible hand" as well as by his method of conjectural history, was intended to compensate the loss of medieval catholic universalism via presenting a philosophical vision of a new universalism, based on universal acceptance of abstract and formal rules. It fully corresponded to the transition of Europe from feudalism to free market order. In spite of the the fact that the defenders of the EU refer frequently to Kant, the economic policies of the Union (especially as concerns redistribution of resources) are at variance with Kant's classicaly liberal ideas.

Date: 2004
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