Martha Nussbaum és a kanti kozmopolitizmus

Our age of globalisation (as well as that of the ‘clash of civilisations’) has urged theoreticians to reconsider and re-evaluate the cosmopolitan aspect of Kant’s philosophy. My paper focuses on Martha Nussbaum’s work because she identifies herself as an heir of cosmopolitan thought. As a first step, I intend to display the motives that urged the philosopher to rethink her position concerning Kant’s moral philosophy, especially in the context of Nietzschean questioning of the legitimacy of the Enlightenment project of justifying morality. As a second step, I show why, for her, the central notion proves to be the ‘cosmopolitanism’ connecting Kant with the stoic tradition. I argue that for Nussbaum, it is crucial to make plausible that the Kantian and the Stoic moral philosophy are compatible.