I think it’s one of those classic speeches that will certainly go down in history as extremely important, whether you like Obama or not:
Some analysis here.
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Perverse Egalitarianism
an otherwise excellent blog
In the final sections Obama’s basically repeats Kant’s cosmopolitan vision, does he not? I mean it’s straight from “What Is Enlightenment?” – Mikhail must be stoked!
I did like the whole “people of the world can live together in peace” – it’s definitely more Kant than Hegel and his defense of the necessity of war and all that stuff…