Towards perpetual peace is a text of Kant published in 1795, Kant there Formula One a certain number of principles intended to create the conditions of a " peace perpétuelle" (in opposition to simple a " suspension of the hostilités" provisional, which is the only form of possible peace as long as " the state of nature" continue to reign between the States).

It is also in this work that Kant speaks about the " Publicité" (within the meaning of Öffentlichkeit" , not of advertisement, but of public nature of the decisions), concept whose Jürgen Habermas (which took it again in Kant) will make fortune.

One can find here a short quotation of Kant which summarizes the spirit of '' Towards perpetual Peace ''. The metaphor of the trees is pointed out: the trees push high and right when their proximity the met in competition to seek the air and the light, but a tree alone extends rabougri in its loneliness. This metaphor suggests that war should be retained the conflict which makes that one can grow while being opposed or while competing, but not direct violence. It is a kind of proposal of not supranational Europe but postanationale where the nations do not disappear, but the ones with the others are measured and open the ones with the others. What is a little the position of Jean-Marc Ferry. Kant, however, saw the nations competing by the trade, whereas JM Fery sees this emulation occurring rather between the nations like civilizations or cultures, or " identités".