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The cosmopolitan ideal would like to see the establishment of a single citizenry for all the inhabitants of this global polis that is our planet. Before being a member of a state, a nation, or a country, each individual is firstly a citizen of the world. Because they belong to the same species, individuals have a generic citizenry from which are derived the rights that every state should always respect, even though the individual is not granted the citizenship that every state can give. Perhaps we will never attain and perhaps it may not even be desirable to attain the world state that Kant longed for (the world ruled by one universal government), but powerful tendencies can be seen on all sides that converge on the future construction of a cosmopolitan civil society.

In the final analysis, cosmopolitanism means simply that: there is only once race, the human race, and only one principle, individual dignity.