![]() Such a complex rightful condition, Kant claims, should emerge through gradual reform and would involve changes in all areas of life, particularly in politics and education, but also socially, for instance, in the sphere of religious belief. Finally, as citizens of the earth, rather than as members of particular states, persons have rights protected by cosmopolitan law. At the international level, a set of laws are needed to regulate interactions between states. At the national level, Kant claims, a rightful order presupposes a republican constitution. For instance, perpetual peace presupposes rightful order at the national, international and cosmopolitan levels. ![]() ![]() As the highest political good, this ideal presupposes several requirements, some of them quite demanding, yet, Kant maintains, not impossible. He introduces this idea not in his famous essay "Toward Perpetual Peace", but in the "Metaphysics of Morals", more exactly in the Doctrine of Right, in the Conclusion to Chapter III, Cosmopolitan Right. According to Kant, perpetual peace is the highest political good. ![]()
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