Immanuel Kant

. If the protagonists of the world’s various conflicts are listening to us. I would like to tell them that war is a denial of human dignity. Immanuel Kant, that great philosopher of the Enlightenment, said that if the decision-makers in war could send their own children to the front, there would never b

r Sheikh Abu Naser, paternal uncle Abdur Rab Serniabat, his 13-year-old daughter Baby Serniabat, 10-year-old son Arif Serniabat and 4-year-old son Shukanto, my paternal cousin Freedom Fighter Sheikh Mani and his pregnant wife Arzu Mani, Brigadier Jamil, and police officer Siddiqur Rahman. May their soul

s not occupy the place that it should in the international arena. For many Powers, the African continent has no role to play as a major actor, in the Kantian sense of the word, in the international arena.

resulting from the earthquake that struck its capital and surrounding areas today. Every word, statement and action adopted in this Hall keeps alive Kant’s hope and inspiring confidence in humankind. To build a world based on the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, the 20-year review of the implementatio

at we are endeavouring to create? Of course, that is easier said than done. In that context, I cannot help but quote the outstanding thinker Immanuel Kant who said that “building a just and peaceful international system is the most difficult of all tasks and a perfect solution is impossible”.

enezuela and to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to justice, equality and peace. “Peace, peace, peace … let us not look for peace in cemeteries, as Kant said with irony, but rather through the most zealous respect for international law. Unfortunately, the United Nations, throughout its history, instea

teacher, provided we learn from its lessons. History shows us the virtues of joint efforts and the benefits of cooperation. We are still far from the Kantian dream of a stable world order that is democratic and prosperous. But we can move ever closer to it through multilateralism and the strengthening o

evastated by natural catastrophes. We are fully aware of the staggering impact of climate change on human beings. Let us recall the words of Immanuel Kant, who said that “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me”. L

r tradition. We are proud of that tradition which sparked off the Renaissance and supported the Enlightenment, whose essence was captured by Immanuel Kant's motto sapere aude: dare to think.

Already in 1795 Immanuel Kant stressed the strong connection between peace and democracy: “If the consent of the citizenry is required in order to determine whether or not there w

any misplaced pride or privilege, we wish to promote those reforms that will enable the United Nations to be the best hope for our peoples. Immanuel Kant, in an essay dated 1784, stated: “If it is now asked whether we at present live in an enlightened age, the answer is: No, but we live in an age of en

nce. A statement from this rostrum is a means rather than an end. It can be but the first of many steps to a level of human development that Immanuel Kant characterized as eternal peace. Too often the closest we come to attaining the ideal of a world without wars and the United Nations as the maintainer

reat victory, allowing us greater optimism about the future and about the possibility of the materialization of the perpetual peace of which Immanuel Kant spoke.

ues, the first prerequisite of a democratic world order. We are witnessing the application, also in inter-State relations, of that freedom defined by Kant as the option not to obey any laws other than those to which one has freely consented. We are gradually moving from guarantees within the State to gu

hers and thinkers who saw peace as the basis for the well-being of every nation. Two hundred years ago one of the great German philosophers, Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, described the preconditions for a world order in a treatise which reflects his deep insight into man's nature.

is to preserve peace. It is not enough to dispel fear. We must also counter the dangers threatening us worldwide. As the German philosopher Immanuel Kant said Peace is not a natural state; it has to be established and worked on continuously. To do so, we must make full use of our powers of reason, of o

tated that the intellectual source and, in some cases, even the literal source, of the Charter of the United Nations may be found in a brief paper by Kant, the great German philosopher of modern Europe. The title of that paper by Kant epitomizes one of the major ideals which our Organization professes:

would like to help to accomplish sincerely and energetically. 94. In his treatise Of Eternal Peace, written in 1795, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose two hundred and fiftieth birthday we celebrate this year, drew up principles for international co-operation.

ted to the goal of a world community. We will continue to work in this Parliament of Man to make it a reality. 39. Two centuries ago, the philosopher Kant predicted that perpetual peace would come eventually — either as the creation of man's moral aspirations or as the consequence of physical necessity.

philosophy, music, art, science and scholarship have enriched the cultures of all our countries and pervaded our thinking. Gutenberg, Luther, Goethe, Kant, Marx, Beethoven-there is no end of famous men and women of whom we might say, as Goethe did of Kant, "Even if you have not read him, he has influenc

ic, two States which, we hope, will one day again become one nation, the great and noble German nation, the fatherland not only of Goethe, Beethoven, Kant, Leibnitz, Marx and so many other illustrious persons who have made of Germany one of the greatest centres of culture and civilization, but also the

five years ago, precisely 150 years had elapsed since publication of a short essay of prophetic intuition. In his native city of Konigsberg, Emmanuel Kant, in 1795, published his "Essay on perpetual peace". In it he attempted to show that universal peace was not only desirable and conceivable, but neces

idea of association carries with it the idea of being a means to an end, a means of consolidating interests. But a community is an end in itself. If Kant's language were applicable in this field. I should say that the former is governed by hypothetical and the latter by categorical imperatives. More an

cannot resign ourselves to the partition of Germany. Its unification once achieved, that country, with its glorious tradition of Leibniz, Goethe and Kant, should also be admitted to the United Nations. 68. Permit me to address a few brief words to the delegations of Spain, Portugal and Italy, to which

ctical measures to achieve such unity. Germany and Austria must be called upon to play a part in this movement, in the spirit of Leibnitz, Goethe and Kant: of Leibnitz, who proposed to Bossuet — to our Bossuet I hope my French friends will permit me to say — the religious unification of Europe as a basi