Human rights in the cosmopolitan democracy according to Habermas

Abstract

The purpose of the commemoration of the bicentenary of the work of Kant Toward Perpetual Peace, Habermas proposes a discursive reconstruction of cosmopolitanism challenging the renewal of realistic objections of Carl Schmitt, whereby only the return to the jus publicum Europaeum enables limitation wars while the moral universalism, led to a confusion of values ​​the political (friend/enemy) with the moral (good/bad) and served as the basis for the cosmopolitan organization transformed the particular interests of a party to the universal values ​​of humanity and deny the other party, causing the criminalization of the enemy and causing the total wars. However, Habermas notes that this fundamentalism of human rights can only be avoided by a discursive reconstruction shows that human rights are not moral rights and that the formation of a cosmopolitan democracy is the only one capable of allowing a procedural application of human rights.