Human Rights Require ‘Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism’ and Cosmopolitan Law for Democratic Governance of Public Goods

Law, cosmopolitan law, and the protection of human rights

In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas articulates a system of rights, including human rights, within the democratic constitutional state. For Habermas, while human rights, like other subjective rights have moral content, they do not structurally belong to a moral system; nor should they be grounded in one. Instead, human rights belong to a positive and coercive legal order upon which individuals...

New Governance , Law and Constitutionalism

A human rights approach to democratic governance and development1

A human rights approach to development starts from the basic premise that the achievement of human rights is the objective of any process aimed at improving the human condition. It uses the various concepts associated with human rights, understood in their broadest sense as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights in support of development ac...

Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern

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Personal identity and cosmopolitan philosophy

Jonardon Ganeri’s The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the FirstPerson Stance is a trailblazing study in cross-cultural philosophy of mind. Its liberal conception of naturalism makes room for a rich analytic taxonomy of conceptions of personal identity that go well beyond the standard models of Cartesianism, Physicalism, and Reductionism. But this naturalistically respectable model of the s...