Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch ( German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf) is a 1795 book authored by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. [ 1] In the book, Kant advances ideas that have subsequently been associated with democratic peace, commercial peace, and institutional peace. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
The translation used by English-speaking Catholics is: ℣. Eternal rest, grant unto him/her (them), O L ORD, ℟. And let perpetual light shine upon him/her (them). ℣. May he/she (they) rest in peace. ℟. Amen. The translation used by English-speaking Lutherans is: [4] ℣. Rest eternal grant him/her, O L ORD; ℟. and let light perpetual ...
v. t. e. The Metaphysics of Morals ( German: Die Metaphysik der Sitten) is a 1797 work of political and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is also Kant's last major work in moral philosophy. The work is divided into two sections: the Doctrine of Right, dealing with political rights, and the Doctrine of Virtue, dealing with ethical virtues .
Kant's political philosophy has been described as liberal for its presumption of limits on the state based on the social contract as a regulative matter. [6] In a Rechtsstaat, the citizens share legally based civil liberties and they can use the courts. A country cannot be a liberal democracy without first being a Rechtsstaat.
Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 into a Prussian German family of Lutheran faith in Königsberg, East Prussia. His mother, Anna Regina Reuter (1697–1737), was born in Königsberg to a father from Nuremberg. [ 12] Her surname is sometimes erroneously given as Porter. Kant's father, Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746), was a German harness ...
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, though the world perish". [ 1] This sentence was the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1556–1564), [ 2] who used it as his slogan, and it became an important rule to control the nation. [ 3] It probably originated from Johannes Jacobus Manlius's book Loci ...
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his Poems of Mr. John Milton (1645). The poem describes Christ's Incarnation and his overthrow of earthly and pagan powers. The poem also connects the Incarnation with Christ's Crucifixion .
The Perpetual Peace or the Treaty of Eternal Peace ( Greek: ἀπέραντος εἰρήνη[ 1] ), signed in 532 between the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire and Sassanid Persia, was a peace treaty of indefinite duration, which concluded the Iberian War (527–531) between the two powers. It heralded a period of relatively cordial relations, but ...