The Realisability of Kant's Cosmopolitan Values

Baisasu, Sorin

Abstract

As noted by Martha Nussbaum, ‘Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace” is a profound defense of cosmopolitan values’ (1997: 28). Kant states, in fact, that ‘essential to the purpose of perpetual peace’ is doing what we ‘ought to do in accordance with laws of freedom […] in terms of all three relations of public right: the right of a state, the right of nations and cosmopolitan right’ (ZeF, 8:365).¹ Hence, perpetual peace represents an indication that all three legal conditions are in place – cosmopolitan right, but also national and international right. It must be acknowledged, however, that cosmopolitan and international right...

Citation

Baisasu, S. (2019). The Realisability of Kant's Cosmopolitan Values. In Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates. Edinburgh University Press

• Publication Date: 2019-04
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Book Title: Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9781474480161; 9780748695492
• Publisher URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvggx4j2.11
• Additional Information: EUP published book link;; https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kant-s-cosmopolitics.html; ; JSTOR book version;; https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvggx4j2