Cosmopolitismo jurídico: pretensões e posições na interseção entre filosofia política e direito

Abstract

This article is divided into three segments and has the intention to introduce the main theme of cosmopolitanism, specifically, the legal cosmopolitanism. Based on the philosophical foundations laid by the Cynics, the text, in its first part, seeks to identify a number of philosophical doctrines who appropriates and use the term. At this time, fallowing Held, the text identified eight key principles for the term cosmopolitanism. Secondly, the paper seeks to demonstrate the transmutation of moral cosmopolitanism of cynics in Kantian’s legal cosmopolitanism. Finally, since only in the legal dimension of cosmopolitanism, the text analyze the meaning given to the term by Seyla Benhabib and its influence on the concept of Democratic Interaction proposed by the author.