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Full Idea
There is hope that the highest purpose of nature, a universal cosmopolitan existence, will at last be realised as the matrix within which all the original capacities of the human race may develop.
Gist of Idea
The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence
Source
Immanuel Kant (Idea for a Universal History [1784], 8th)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Political Writings', ed/tr. Reiss,Hans [CUP 1996], p.51
A Reaction
Apart from Diogenes of Sinope, Kant seems to have been the first great champion of the cosmopolitan ideal. As I write (2018) the western world is putting up growing barriers against immigrants. I think my response may be to adopt Kantian cosmopolitanism.
Related Idea
Idea 1764 Diogenes said he was a citizen of the world [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius]
21053 | The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant] |
21054 | Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant] |
21055 | Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant] |
21056 | The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant] |
21057 | The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant] |