Der Verfasser unternimmt den Versuch einer Klärung des Begriffs von der "Rationalität des Staates" bei Hobbes. Er zeichnet zunächst Hobbes' Bild eines instrumentell-rationalistischen Staates als Maschine nach. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird gezeigt, daß der Hobbes'sche Staat zu seinem Funktionieren grundsätzlich auch der Herrschaft über den Glauben seiner Bürger bedarf, daß er als in der Wahl der Staatsreligion souveräner Glaubensstaat gedacht ist. Im Gegensatz zu Hobbes kann die Staatslehre der Gegenwart "aufgrund der pluralistischen Verfassung moderner westlicher Staaten nicht mehr auf eine normative Richtigkeitsgewähr zurückgreifen, die in den europäischen Glaubensstaaten aus ihrer Begründung und Legitimation als christliche Staaten zur Verfügung stand". "Güte und Rationalität" eines Staates können jedoch an seiner Fähigkeit zur Friedensstiftung und zur Minimierung von Gewalt und Verfolgung gemessen werden. (ICE)
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 628-630
The purpose of this essay is a critical investigation of Immanuel Kant's Zum Ewigen Frieden as a metaphysical and transcendental rather than political project. The essay argues that this project, despite Kant's protestations to the contrary, necessarily produces the `peace of the graveyard'. Eternal Peace needs to be understood not only as a guide to the creation of peaceful relations between states — a common interpretation reflected in the misleading translation of the treatise as `Perpetual Peace' — but also as a philosophical response to the problem of Difference in international politics. As such, it establishes many of the metaphysical tenets through which Liberalism has ever since attempted to establish the conditions for Eternal Peace via the ontological eradication of Difference and the operation of an ethnoand temporocentric epistemology. Consequently, Eternal Peace depends on the death, rather than affirmation, of the Political as the agonistic engagement with the Other.
The purpose of this essay is a critical investigation of Immanuel Kant's Zum Ewigen Frieden as a metaphysical & transcendental rather than political project. The essay argues that this project, despite Kant's protestations to the contrary, necessarily produces the 'peace of the graveyard.' Eternal Peace needs to be understood not only as a guide to the creation of peaceful relations between states -- a common interpretation reflected in the misleading translation of the treatise as 'Perpetual Peace' -- but also as a philosophical response to the problem of Difference in international politics. As such, it establishes many of the metaphysical tenets through which Liberalism has ever since attempted to establish the conditions for Eternal Peace via the ontological eradication of Difference & the operation of an ethno- & temporocentric epistemology. Consequently, Eternal Peace depends on the death, rather than affirmation, of the Political as the agonistic engagement with the Other. Adapted from the source document.