Kant’s Embedded Cosmopolitanism

Kant’s Embedded Cosmopolitanism
Title Kant’s Embedded Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Georg Cavallar
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 198
Release 2015-05-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110429454

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Kant’s omnipresence in contemporary cosmopolitan discourses contrasts with the fact that little is known about the historical origins and the systematic status of his cosmopolitan theory. This study argues that Kant’s cosmopolitanism should be understood as embedded and dynamic. Inspired by Rousseau, Kant developed a form of cosmopolitanism rooted in a modified form of republican patriotism. In contrast to static forms of cosmopolitanism, Kant conceived the tensions between embedded, local attachments and cosmopolitan obligations in dynamic terms. He posited duties to develop a cosmopolitan disposition (Gesinnung), to establish common laws or cosmopolitan institutions, and to found and promote legal, moral, and religious communities which reform themselves in a way that they can pass the test of cosmopolitan universality. This is the cornerstone of Kant’s cosmopolitanism, and the key concept is the vocation (Bestimmung) of the individual as well as of the human species. Since realizing or at least approaching this vocation is a long-term, arduous, and slow process, Kant turns to the pedagogical implications of this cosmopolitan project and spells them out in his later writings. This book uncovers Kant’s hidden theory of cosmopolitan education within the framework of his overall practical philosophy.

Kant's Embedded Cosmopolitanism

Kant's Embedded Cosmopolitanism
Title Kant's Embedded Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Georg Cavallar
Publisher ISSN
Pages 236
Release 2015
Genre PHILOSOPHY
ISBN 9783110438499

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This book uncovers Kant's hidden theory of cosmopolitan education within the framework of his overall practical philosophy. The Kant brought out here turns out to be very different from current mainstream appropriations, which erroneously consider

Embedded Cosmopolitanism

Embedded Cosmopolitanism
Title Embedded Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Toni Erskine
Publisher
Pages 332
Release 2008-07-31
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Many would argue that 'cosmopolitanism' provides the most convincing account of why we have duties to 'strangers' and 'enemies' in world politics: everyone--regardless of political borders, community boundaries, or enemy lines--is entitled to equal moral consideration. However, this 'impartialist' perspective is often seen to be deeply problematic: cosmopolitanism neglects the profound importance of local ties and loyalties, community and culture, and therefore is incapable of adequately describing our moral experience and wholly unworthy of our aspirations. To answer these criticisms, Dr Erskine seeks to construct an alternative 'embedded cosmopolitan' position. Bringing together insights from communitarian and feminist political thought, she explains that embedded cosmopolitanism recognizes community membership as being morally constitutive. The communities that define us are not necessarily territorially bounded, and a moral perspective situated in the community need not be parochial. Dr Erskine tests this theoretical position against the challenging circumstances of war. Taking examples from the 'war on terror', she examines duties to 'enemies' through norms of non-combatant immunity and the prohibition against torture.

Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism

Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism
Title Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Jakob Huber
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 209
Release 2022-06-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0192657844

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Two kinds of cosmopolitan vision are typically associated with Kant's practical philosophy: on the one hand, the ideal of a universal moral community of rational agents who constitute a 'kingdom of ends' qua shared humanity. On the other hand, the ideal of a distinctly political community of 'world citizens' who share membership in some kind of global polity. Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism introduces a novel account of Kant's global thinking, one that has hitherto been largely overlooked: a grounded cosmopolitanism concerned with spelling out the normative implications of the fact that a plurality of corporeal agents concurrently inhabit the earth's spherical surface. It is neither concerned with a community of shared humanity in the abstract, nor of shared citizenship, but with a 'disjunctive' community of earth dwellers, that is, embodied agents in direct physical confrontation with each other. Kant's grounded cosmopolitanism as laid out in the Doctrine of Right frames the question how individuals relate to one another globally by virtue of concurrent existence and derives from this a specific set of constraints on cross-border interactions.

Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism

Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism
Title Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja
Publisher Springer
Pages 235
Release 2017-09-07
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3319639889

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This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy. Taking the idea of ‘common property of the land’ as a starting point, the author makes the original case that attention to this concept is needed to properly understand the notion of cosmopolitan citizenship. Offering a reconstruction of cosmopolitanism from an interdisciplinary point of view, Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism shows how the concept sits at the intersection between philosophical debates, legal realities and the origins of the construction of the discipline of international law. Essential reading for all researchers and advances students of cosmopolitanism, political philosophy and the history of international law, it broadens the current understanding of the concept of cosmopolitanism and reflects on cosmopolitan studies from a historical and philosophical point of view.

Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law

Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law
Title Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law PDF eBook
Author Claudio Corradetti
Publisher Routledge
Pages 223
Release 2020-04-08
Genre Law
ISBN 0429670729

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Why is there so much attention on Kant's global politics in present day law and philosophy? This book highlights the potential fruitfulness of Kant's cosmopolitan thought for understanding the complexities of the contemporary political world. It adopts a double methodological strategy by reconstructing a genealogical conceptual journey showing the development of international law, as well as introducing an interpretation of cosmopolitanism centred on Kant's theory of a metaphysics of freedom. The result is a novel focus on Kant's notion of the world republic. The hypothesis here defended is that the world republic stands as a way of thinking about international politics where the possibility of progression towards peace results from its use as a regulative idea.

Transnational Cosmopolitanism

Transnational Cosmopolitanism
Title Transnational Cosmopolitanism PDF eBook
Author Ins Valdez
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 231
Release 2019-05-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1108483321

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Advances normative notion of transnational cosmopolitanism based on Du Bois's writings and practice, and discusses limitations of Kantian cosmopolitanism.