‘Systematicity of the critical philosophy as a doctrine of wisdom’ in Kant’s Proclamation of the Imminent Conclusion of a Treaty of Perpetual Peace in Philosophy

Abstract

In this paper we propose to contribute to demonstrate how the Kantian critical system manifests in the Proclamation of the Imminent Conclusion of a Treaty of Perpetual Peace in Philosophy, and how this opuscule contribute to elucidate the doctrine of wisdom in relation to practical reason as the ultimate end of humanity. For our purpose, first, we will address the state of warfare in which the status of philosophy finds itself. Second, we will explore the method of critical philosophy to ensure a possible metaphysics. Third, we will focus on the practical priority of philosophy and on the ultimate end of humanity understood as the supreme good. Finally, we will explain how the theses developed together with Kant’s two moral concerns, the nature of philosophy and humanity, lead us to the idea of progress and the hope of perpetual peace.