The Perpetual Peace and World Political Justice

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The Perpetual Peace and World Political Justice

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Regardless of the scientific efforts for conceptual clarification of just war and International legislation for determining its restriction and legitimacy, the phenomenon of war is always unpleasant. Undoubtedly the most important, or at least most Controversial of these efforts, has been the doctrine of democratic peace, which relies on universal moral concepts. In fact, can we find common moral foundations for the ideal of world peace and realize moral cosmopolitan in our time? It is believed that cosmopolitan has been collapsed during the late modern and the concept has become a fancy attachment.However, trying to explain the current reality and future prospects of communities, benefiting from cosmopolitan pattern, especially in a moral position, is still important. Discussion of the moral cosmopolitanism lead us to two prominent theorist, Immanuel Kant and John Rawls. These two scholars, emphasize on "perpetual peace" and "world political justice" in turn. This article, examining the relationship between Kant's "perpetual peace" and Rawls' "global political justice", indicates that the recent concept has been influenced of the moral foundations of Kant's perpetual peace in republican idealism, like self-organizing, Kingdom of Ends and social contractualism. But Rawls' political realism attempts to overcome on Kant's ambiguity on how to bridge the gap between the action to categorical imperative and political structure. Thus, he reconstruct its recent theory at the escaping of Kant's cosmopolitan and transhistorical implications. The idea of the ideal-realistic continues in the current studies of democratic peace.

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