Immanuel Kant
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Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg in Prussia, and one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 22 Apr 1724, Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), baptized Emanuel (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 12 Feb 1804, Königsberg (opens wiqqi.app)
- University: Enrolled at the University of Königsberg in 1740; licensed to lecture in 1755; professor from 1770 (opens wiqqi.app)
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26 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A state is not property but a society that only it has the right to rule (opens korrents.com)
“For a state is not a property (patrimonium), as may be the ground on which its people are settled. It is a society of human beings over whom no one but itself has the right to rule and to dispose.”
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Standing armies are themselves a cause of wars of aggression (opens korrents.com)
“Now, since owing to the sums devoted to this purpose, peace at last becomes even more oppressive than a short war, these standing armies are themselves the cause of wars of aggression, undertaken in order to get rid of…”
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The ease of financing war, combined with rulers' inclination to it, is a great obstacle to peace (opens korrents.com)
“The ease, then, with which war may be waged, coupled with the inclination of rulers towards it—an inclination which seems to be implanted in human nature—is a great obstacle in the way of perpetual peace.”
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A state is not property but a society that only it has the right to rule (opens korrents.com)