foedus pacificum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Moreover, the imbalance of Article 2 para. 4 and the right to self-defence is paralleled to a “significant oscillation” in Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” between the positive idea of a world-republic and the negative substitute of a foedus pacificum."
- "But still, he argues, if Kant’s hypothesis of a foedus pacificum is correct, as Rawls believes it is, armed conflict between democratic peoples will tend to disappear as they approach the ideal of constitutional regimes."
- "The other face of the foedus pacificum, in other words, is a democratic war theory, an account of how and why republics will fight wars and a recognition that such wars may be very fierce and very frequent until such time as the foedus pacificum covers the earth."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: foedus