Cosmopolitan Law?

For contemporary political theorists, cosmopolitanism as citizenship of the world implies a critique of ordinary theories of political obligation, with their tendency to focus on their duties to fellow citizens, not to people elsewhere. The ultimate literal expression of cosmopolitanism would of cou...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Yale law journal 2007-03, Vol.116 (5), p.1022-1070
1. Verfasser: Feldman, Noah
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:For contemporary political theorists, cosmopolitanism as citizenship of the world implies a critique of ordinary theories of political obligation, with their tendency to focus on their duties to fellow citizens, not to people elsewhere. The ultimate literal expression of cosmopolitanism would of course be a single world government with corresponding global citizenship. At its irreducible core, cosmopolitanism demands that general human qualities be put ahead of particular allegiances. Notwithstanding the rooted cosmopolitanisms of Nussbaum and Appiah, it follows that, through the heuristic device of the "citizen of the world," cosmopolitanism does intend to weaken somewhat people's sense of the primacy of political obligation. Law, in its purest and most general sense, is the condition for civilization itself. But the institutions that apply law best are in the end political ones; and without them, the best legal principles can give humans no advantage.
ISSN:0044-0094
1939-8611
DOI:10.2307/20455749