War in Simone Weil’s Harsh Critique. Peace in Kant’s Hopes (by Mario A. Cattaneo) - ABSTRACT: In this brief article, Professor Cattaneo comments on the conclusions reached by the latest Italian congress of philosophy of law, whose topic was War and Peace. On the one side, he remembers Simone Weil, who said that war, the most extreme humiliation of human dignity, is a matter not really of foreign policy, but rather of inner policy, since a people’s enemy coincides with its leaders and military chiefs. On the one side, he recalls Kant’s words of hope, in Zum ewigen Frieden, for an everlasting peace a fruit of Republicanism and the Rule of Law.