Single Idea 20571

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights]

Full Idea

The idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastic and overstrained; it is a necessary complement to the unwritten code of political and international right, transforming it into a universal right of humanity.

Gist of Idea

There are political and inter-national rights, but also universal cosmopolitan rights

Source

Immanuel Kant (Perpetual Peace [1795], 'Third')

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Political Writings', ed/tr. Reiss,Hans [CUP 1996], p.108


A Reaction

The interesting thought is that there are no 'natural rights', but there can be universal rights insofar as there exists a universal community. See the UN Declaration of Human Rights c.1948.