Lewis White Beck has done a fine job of selecting the works that represents Kant's political and historical views. What is particularly interesing about these writings is that they reveal a teleology in Kant that suggests that perhaps our will is not as free as his ethical and metaphysical works say. Perpetual Peace should be required reading for political philosophy classes. Highly recommended, and surprisingly easy to read, considering who the author is.

Lewis White Beck has done a fine job of translating and selecting these essays, which reveal Kant as a political and historical thinker. Reading "Perpetual Peace" makes one wonder why it is not required reading in political philosophy classes. The essays also unearth Kant's teleological thinking, and suggest that perhaps our will is not as free as he believed it to be in his ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological writings. Highly recommended.

While Kant's work is important for many philosophical reasons (e.g., his splendid arguments for how our minds shape our experiences), this book just happens to find Christianity the most rational of all faiths per lots of convoluted "reasons" as shallow as they are boring.

It has been more than 200 years since this book was firstpublish (1788) and it remains actual, so this shows the uniqueness ofKant's work. There is no doubt that the philosopher born in Koenigsberg in 1724 is among of the greatest thinkers of all time. In "Critical of Practical Reason", Immanuel Kant continues his explorations in the procedures of knowledge, understanding and experience started at 'Critical of Pure Reason."... When you read this book it becomes clear why such a philosopher was so important in the development of the science in the 19th and 20th century where the discussion about analysis, synthesis and causality remains open END