Kant's Principles of Politics

Six pages that gave the Enlightenment its motto: dare to know. Kant argues that what keeps people intellectually dependent is not lack of intelligence but lack of nerve.

Immanuel Kant

Kant's blueprint for how states could stop going to war, built on republican constitutions and a federation of free nations. The essay that shaped modern thinking on international law.

Immanuel Kant

Kant argues that history has a direction, and that human conflict itself is what drives societies toward justice. A short essay with an unusually large claim.

Immanuel Kant

Kant argues that publishing someone's work without permission wrongs the author as a speaker, not just as an owner. A short essay that reads as an early theory of intellectual property.

Immanuel Kant