Guerra, pace, libertà. La prospettiva di Kant

According to Kant, the first definite article of perpetual peace states the importance of the representative government and of the related Rule of law’s system with reference to each nation. It means that not a political theory but the philosophy of history or a philosophical idea of Commonwealth or republic is able to define the way to living together in peace: since 1688’s Glorious Revolution to the following Century’s French Revolution. The first definite article of perpetual peace set up a proper organization of human life within modern institutions ensuring the free development of each and everyone; failing this, peoples and nations are destined to become poor while peaceful international cohabitation will be replaced by the compulsory use of violent and destructive force into submission. A risk from which nobody is exempt on principle or by goodwill.