Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History

Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf (Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1795), 104 pp. 2nd expanded edition (Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1796), 112 pp. [Ak. 8:343-86] “Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Project.” Translated by Ted Humphrey in Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983), pp. 107-39. Translated by H. B. Nisbet in Immanuel Kant, Political Writings, edited by Hans Reiss, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 93-130. Translated by Mary J. Gregor in Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy, edited by Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 317-51.

Written in approval of the signing of the Treaty of Basel, which promised the survival of the French Revolution.