Out of the «natural condition of mankind»: Hobbes, Kant, Hegel and the Problem of Worldwide Peace

Authors

  • Giorgio Grimaldi University of Urbino Carlo Bo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/7658

Keywords:

State of Nature, State, Philosophy of History, State of Emergency, Cosmopolitanism

Abstract

The passage from state of nature to State is one of the possible ways that can lead from nature to history. In a context in which there are States that acknowledge each other as legitimate, the passage from nature to history takes the form of the overstepping of the interstate state of nature. Is it possible to think this overstepping as a passage leaning towards a cosmopolitan arrangement? Should this achievement be the task of a State that has a strong hegemonic weight (a superpower) or be the effect of a concerted effort between different geopolitical poles? Is one of these two options strictly necessary? Can we think in the direction of other scenarios? In order to try to answer to these questions, we will follow three thinkers (Hobbes, Kant, Hegel). Each of them – in a different conceptual framework – has strongly reiterate the necessity to exit from state of nature. Two of them (Kant and Hegel) have thought the problems concerning this exit in a worldwide perspective.

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Published

2021-01-18

Issue

Vol. 8 (2021): RTH - Education & Philosophy

Section

Evolving Philosophy

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