Abstract
Kant's conception of cosmopolitan right as outlined in his Rechtslehre has recently been advanced as a normative basis for international law and international relations theory. Through an historical investigation of the regional character of the metaphysics underpinning this conception, the present article provides a different way of understanding Kant's cosmopolitanism. This should be understood not as a potentially global norm for law and justice, but as an ethical ideal internal to the culture and cultivation of a particular European intellectual persona: the philosophical prophet of man's future moral community. It is through the spiritual prestige of this persona that Kantian cosmopolitanism has sought to compete with rival constructions of the law of nations. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010
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