ilosophers speak freely to the public. The end of his essay is entrenched in his liberalism. He argues that politics needs some sense of morality for a nation to stay at peace. Again, he refers to man's natural state as a state of war. In his appendix, he shares his view on how we can leave our natural state for one of peace. This demonstrates how he turns a realist view liberal. He sees the solution in the choices of mankind. He argues that people must do what is right and make their decisions based on the good of the republic to make peace become a reality. The majority of Kant's essay is based on liberal theory. He relies heavily on second image theories with his beliefs in republican constitutions. He sees the causes of war to be linked to the nature of state and government. He believes that states should form a union and not merely act on their own accord. Kant reiterates:"For the sake of its own security, each nation can and should demand that the others enter into a contract resembling the civil one and guaranteeing the rights of each. This would be a federation of nations, but it must not be a nation consisting with nations" (115)A realist would find it difficult to be drawn into this type of contract. Their philosophy is strictly first image and deals only with power. Kant disagrees with a philosophy based solely on power struggles. He argues that if the state meets his long term needs, then man will act in ways that best serve the state. This also opposes the realist ideology. For instance, realists argue that men only make decisions that affect him on a short run basis. In its very conception, a republican government is a long term undertaking. His main connection with the realist theory is his admittance that the natural state of man is war. He confronts this throughout his essay."The state of peace among men living in close proximity is not the natural state; instead, the natural state is one of war, which does not exist in...
