Subject:Immanuel Kant: I support the Iraq war
From: "openDemocracy"
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:23:04 -0000
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IMMANUEL KANT: "I SUPPORT THE IRAQ WAR"

Kant, the great German philosopher of reason and author of "Perpetual Peace", developed his ideas amidst the global battles of the American and French Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars. Two hundred years on, he would have assented to the war against Saddam's tyranny, says lauded English philosopher Roger Scruton, today on http://www.openDemocracy.net

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