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  1. James Bohman and Mattias Lutz-Bachmann, “Introduction” in Bohman and Luzt-Bachmann, eds., Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Idea (Cambridge, MIT: 1997), p. 1.

  2. Immanuel Kant, To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company: 2007), p. 3.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid., p. 10.

  6. Ibid., p. 11.

  7. Elaine Scarry, “War and the Social Contract: Nuclear Policy, Distribution, and the Right to Bear Arms.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 139, May 1991, p. 1279.

  8. Ibid., p. 1283.

  9. Ibid., p. 1281.

  10. Kant, op. cit., p. 9.

  11. Ibid.

  12. See Susan Shell, “Kant’s Political Cosmology: Freedom and Desire in the ‘Remarks’ Concerning Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime,” in Howard Lloyd Williams, ed., Essays on Kant’s Political Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992), p. 82.

  13. Immanuel Kant, “Remarks in the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime,” in Patrick Frierson and Paul Guyer, eds., Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime and Other Writing (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 105.

  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract, Victor Gourevitch, trans., (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 45.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Kant, To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, p. 9.

  18. Rousseau, op. cit., p. 48.

  19. Ibid., p. 41.

  20. Ibid., p. 147.

  21. Ibid., p. 49.

  22. Ibid., p. 54.

  23. Ibid., p. 57.

  24. Henry David Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience” in Joseph Wood Krutch, ed., Walden and Other Writings (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), p. 87.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Ibid.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Ibid., p. 86.

  31. Ibid., p. 87.

  32. Scarry, op. cit., p. 1281.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Rousseau, op. cit, p. 43.

  35. Thoreau, op. cit., p. 87.

  36. Kant, To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, p. 3.

  37. Ibid., p. 7

  38. Ibid., p. 14.

  39. Ibid., p. 9.

  40. Ibid., p. 4.

  41. Ibid.

  42. Ibid.

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Ibid.

  46. I would like to thank Professor Cheyney Ryan for posing the question to which this article is a response, and Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help in revision.

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Gabriel, J. Forced to be Free, Not Free to be Slaves. J Value Inquiry 46, 39–50 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9325-1

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