Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who among the following thinkers is an advocate of cosmopolitan democracy?
APlato
BHegel
CKant ✓ Correct
DS. D. Lawrance
Correct answer: (C) Kant — Among these thinkers the advocate of cosmopolitan democracy is Immanuel Kant.
Explanation
★Among these thinkers the advocate of cosmopolitan democracy is Immanuel Kant.
★Cosmopolitan democracy is the idea that democratic principles and rights should extend beyond the nation state to a global community.
★Kant pointed this way in his essay Perpetual Peace (1795), proposing a federation of free states bound by law and a principle of universal hospitality.
★His vision of a peaceful international order treating people as citizens of the world is the seed of later cosmopolitan thought.
★Plato and Hegel both tied political life firmly to a particular polis or state, not to a global order, so neither one fits.
★So Kant is the correct answer.
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