HUM 302: Perpetual Peace vs. The Political; Kant vs. Schmitt

I. Opening and Brief Summary of Previous Session

II. Difficulties in Kant’s Preliminary Articles

III. Kant on Why an Allied Federation of Republics is Superior to a One World State

IV. Schmitt on how Liberalism Tries to Evade the Logic of the Political

V. Schmitt on What is at Stake if the Political is Lost

Links to things mentioned:

Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace

Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Wagner’s Parsifal (listen to this before Kant section)

Beethoven’s 17th Piano Sonata The Tempest (listen to this before Schmitt section)

Woodrow Wilson’s War Message