Migration und Weltbürgerlichkeit Zum konstitutiven Reflexionsverhältnis zwischen Recht und Sittlichkeit im Anschluss an Kants „Gesetz der Hospitalität“

Abstract

In his late work Perpetual Peace. A philosophical sketch from 1795/96, Kant gives us some hints on the relation between migration and cosmopolitanism. In his “general law of hospitality”, which is not a law of guest, but guarantees a right of migration, he reminds us all as citizens of the world. But a special antinomy of the law of world citizen provokes reflection on the fact, that any law could not protect us sufficiently - especially in the case of human rights - if a certain morality is missed in general. We need an understanding of what it means to be a world citizen. In spite of some recent discussions, which try to define or exclude the question of migration as an only special problem, it has to be recognized that it is a question of world-wide importance which belongs to the main questions of freedom in the world.