Immanuel Kant ve Uluslararası: Egemen Devlet, Kozmopolitan Siyaset ve Evrensellik/Farklılık
Immanuel Kant and the International: The Sovereign-State, Cosmopolitanism and Universality/Difference

Summary/Abstract: There are two very different approaches to Kant’s legal and politi¬cal philosophy in the recent Kant scholarship. According to the cosmopolitan perspective, Kant envisions a global moral-legal order based on the concept of autonomous moral and rational individual subject. The second approach as¬serts that Kant developes a political ontology defined by the modern conception of sovereignty which understands the sovereign state as a metaphysical and moral subject. This article, however, argues that we do not have to choose one of these interpretations and Kant’s political and international thougt include both cosmopolitanism and the concept of morally and rationally autonomous sovereign state. Indeed Kant’s original motivation is to justify the sovereign state as a moral and legal collective subject within a cosmopolitan ethical and political ontology. As critically interrogating Kant’s idea of global politics and the international, the article points out the promises, limits and problems of Kant’s thought in relation to the ethical-legal conditions of coexistence of mul¬tiple socio-political communities and diverse historico-cultural formations.

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