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First edition in French of Kant’s important essay Zum ewigen Frieden (Wrst
published in 1795), and presumably the edition in which it was read in
most of Europe. This publication is a clear outcome of the growing emphasis
and reliance on international relations in modern politics. Kant, who
knew Rousseau’s Extrait du Projet de Paix perpetuelle, which in turn was
based on Castel de Saint-Pierre’s fundamental work of the beginning of
the eighteenth century, here details the basis of practical paciWsm. In his
far-reaching analysis of preconditions for the establishment of peace, Kant
anticipates twentieth century developments, such as the League of Nations
and the United Nations Charter. ‘The social order that Kant recommended,
based as it was on his analysis of man’s nature, would permit a maximum
of individual freedom and competition, yet would have enough power
to restrain this freedom whenever it threatened to produce oppression or
anarchy. He proposed a similar system for international aVairs; each separate
state should be free to run its own aVairs, but a supranational federation
of sovereign states would have enough power to regulate international relations
and prevent war’ (IESS).
This Wrst French edition is of importance in its own right, since it actually
contains a second supplement not included in the original German edition
of the previous year. The additional Article secret pour la Paix perpétuelle, was
later reprinted in the second German edition. Here Kant recommends that
the authorities of the state should consult the philosophers on the questions
of peace or war. No information on the identity of the translator is
available. It seems evident however that it was not by Kant himself, as the
translation is not particularly faithful, some of the footnotes have been cut,
others left out.
Not in Warda, see Warda 154 for Wrst edition.
From Samuel Grubbe’s Library
65 KANT, Immanuel. Über Pädagogik. Herausgegeben von
D. Friedrich Theodor Rink. Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius,
1803. £650
8vo, pp. vi, 146; entirely uncut in contemporary boards, spine partially
lettered in manuscript; extremities a little bent, else a Wne and crisp;
from the library of the Swedish philosopher Samuel Grubbe.
First edition of Kant’s only speciWc contribution to educational theory.
Kant, as professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Königsberg also had to
lecture on subsidiary subjects, such as education. He handed his lecture
notes to his friend, Theodor Rink, and they were Wnally published in 1803,
a year before Kant’s death.
This brief treatise, in itself not a systematic study of educational theories
but a collection of thoughts and maxims, shows Kant strongly inXuenced
by Rousseau’s Emile. Just like Rousseau he writes about ‘education according
to nature’, but stresses that children should be treated as children and
not as adults in miniature. According to Kant ‘man’ is the only creature
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