Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It
urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to
apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of
nationality, race, religion or gender in a way that would have been
unheard of even fifty years ago. It suggests a range of virtues
which the cosmopolitan individual should display: virtues such as
tolerance, justice, pity, righteous indignation at injustice,
generosity toward the poor and starving, care for the global
environment, and the willingness to take responsibility for change
on a global scale. This book explains and espouses the values of
cosmopolitanism, adjudicates between various forms of
cosmopolitanism, and defends it against its critics.Cosmopolitanism
has relevance for international distributive justice; peace; human
rights; environmental sustainability; protection for minorities,
refugees and other oppressed groups; democratic participation; and
inter cultural tolerance. The book does not aim to impart factual
information about global issues or to offer prescriptions for the
solution of global problems. Rather, it highlights the ethical
issues inherent in them and identifies the moral obligations that
individuals, multinational corporations and governments might have
in relation to them.While espousing a cosmopolitan form of global
ethics, a liberal form of politics, sustainable and just forms of
business practice, and an internationalist approach to global
conflict and governance, it seeks to present as many sides of the
ethical debates as can be supported by reasonable argument.
Discussing the work of Kwame Anthony Appiah, Seyla Benhabib, Martha
Nussbaum, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, Henry Shue, Peter
Singer and others, this book provides a clear and accessible survey
of cosmopolitanism and analyses the reality of the rights and
responsibilities that it espouses.
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