Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Felsefe Anabilim Dalı

Anahtar Sözcükler 
Kant, Kozmopolitizm, Ebedi Barış, Hukuk Felsefesi 

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ABSTRACT 
DEMİRGÜÇ BULUT, Ahu. 
An Inquiry On the Idea of Cosmopolitanism in Kant’s 
Philosophy of Law
, Master Thesis, Ankara, 2019. 
Cosmopolitanism/world citizenship is an important concept that originated in Ancient 
Greece but became a basis for many philosophical and political concepts, especially 
human rights, which became popular in modern philosophy with Kant's works on political 
philosophy. According to Kant, the perpetual peace and world citizenship status that 
human beings will attain in the end is regulated in a completely legal framework in Kant's 
philosophy as the highest purpose determined by nature for humanity and they are 
inseparably related due to the necessity of each other. Although they are described not 
only as a utopian vision of the future but as a legal structure of reason, the ideas of 
cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace have been regarded as a utopia that can never be 
realized by some thinkers. Cosmopolitanism and related perpetual peace are criticized by 
various aspects such as the problems thought to create the use of the concept of humanity 
in this context, the attempt to homogenize the multipolar structure of the world with 
cosmopolitanism, the limits of the concept of universal hospitality, or whether the end of 
the war is possible but never lose their importance in political philosophy. 
Nowadays, the concept of cosmopolitanism and its critics are revisited because of the 
changes in the form of wars to interventions, refugee problems gain importance and 
human rights violations are on the agenda. Therefore, in this study, different views on the 
realization of the concept of cosmopolitanism as presented by Kant have been sampled 
and tried to put an entire perspective on the subject. 
Key Words 
Kant, Cosmopolitanism, Perpetual Peace, Philosophy of Law 

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