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This 3 page paper discusses Immanuel Kant’s essays “The End of All Things” and “Perpetual Peace.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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End of All Things" and "Perpetual Peace," and what his main points are. Discussion In the essay "The End of All Things," Kant comes to grips with the concept of
eternity and the idea of time with regard to it; he looks at this from the perspective of the Christian idea of the Last Judgment. First, he suggests that there
have been two systems in place for millennia to help with our ideas of eternity: the monistic view and the nihilistic view (Kant). The first "grants all men (who are
purified by a longer or shorter penance) eternal blessedness"; the second holds that "some are chosen for blessedness, but all others are condemned to eternal damnation" (Kant 94). There is
a third alternative, a system in which everyone is eternally damned, but Kant argues that such a system is indefensible, and theres no justification for creating beings in this case
(Kant). In addition, a system of universal damnation would mean a "flawed intelligence, who, displeased with his own work, knew of no other means to remedy its shortcomings than to
destroy it" (Kant 94). He also points out that to have life and then to lose it to eternal darkness is worse than never having existed at all (Kant). He
also points out that we have "nothing before us that could now teach us anything about our fate in a future world except the judgment of our own conscience"; that
is, our "present moral state" is the only thing that allows us to make any sort of judgment about what the future will be (Kant 95). The future in this
context is personal survival. Following this thinking about time, the future and the fate of man, Kant says "In the Apocalypse (10:5-6) [John writes,] ... that henceforth time shall no
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