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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 Ref
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.