What Immanuel Kant thinks about Europe

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German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg, where he taught at the university; author of the three Critiques and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

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1. c. 1795

   Our readingEuropean nations' conduct in foreign lands, treated as conquest, is horrifying injustice

   Their wordsThe injustice which they exhibit on visiting foreign lands and races—this being equivalent in their eyes to conquest—is such as to fill us with horror.

   ↗Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795; M. Campbell Smith translation)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book