Immanuel Kant's The Extinction Of The Nation

Let us now turn to the possible solutions to respond to the end of the nation. Immanuel Kant argues for cosmopolitan constitutions with a principle of universal hospitality, that is to say for the right of a stranger no to be treated with hostility when he arrives on someone else’s territory. Kant argues that this arises from the natural right to the earth’s surface. He also argues that this has to be done within the framework of Republics –that is to say states is which the executive and the legislative power are separated and that have a representative system– which would mean that all nation-states would have to agree to apply this principle of universal hospitality. Kant argues that it is in the states’ interest to do this as it would guarantee peace. However, in the context of the …show more content…
This proposition has been made by Ali Khan. In his paper “The Extinction of nation-states” (1992), he describes the coming extinction of the nation-state because of economic interdependence and the universal recognition of human rights and argues in favor of what he calls “Free State”, free from boundaries for circulation of goods, persons, services and capital; free from physical boundaries and free from psychological boundaries (such as patriotism and the national …show more content…
Instead of using the nation as “the absolute of political integration” (Lacroix, 2004: 16), we have to go beyond the principle of