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Immanuel Kant addresses a question often asked in political theory the relationship amid practical political behavior and piety -- how people do behave in authorities and how they ought to behave. Observers of political treat recognize that political natural process is often a morally indefinite business. Yet many of us, whether involved heavily in political action or not, have a sense that political behavior could and should be better than this. In Appendix 1 of Perpetual Peace, Kant explicates that conflict does not exist between government and faith, because politics is an application of pietism. Objectively, he argues that morality and politics are reconcilable. In this essay, I will argue 2 potential problems with Kants position on the compatibility of moral and politics his defense force of moral importance in emotion and particular situations when an action seems twain politically legitimate and yet almost immoral if by politics, regarded as a set of principles of political prudence, and morals, as a system of laws that bind us unconditionally. In Perpetual Peace, Kant writes, all politics must bend the knee before right (Kant, PP pg. 125). He claims that morals, in the sense of the doctrine of right, should adopt more significance in political decisions, or even be the predominant consideration. To emphasize the lack of between morals and politics, Kant cites Matthew 1016 Be ye wise as serpents, and atoxic as doves (Kant, PP pg.116). Wisdom is not sufficient if it is not conducted towards a arranged purpose with an application towards morality. Kant considers the wisdom of the serpent to be used for the onward motion of morality. Not only should politics be congruent with morals, still as well as properly conceived poli... ...metimes it is the mechanisms that keep the political wheels in motion. If politics were absolutely submissive to morality and honesty, it would seem not only rather unrealistic but also undesirable. In the face of this problem, a challenge for Kant would be to patronage the practicality and intuitive desirability of honesty is better than any policy. Kants claim in Perpetual Peace supplies an inspiring vision of a just, peaceful and flourishing cosmopolitan world. It is true that morality and justice demand truthfulness, civil obedience and a full suite of basic rights and liberties however, because tender-hearted nature and emotion subsists of more than duty to moral law and on that point exists circumstances that demand lying, civil disobedience such as revolutions and the short-lived restriction of rights and liberties, there does exist a conflict between morality and politics.