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Questioning Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 2010)
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Questioning Cosmopolitanism (Paperback, 2010)
Series: Studies in Global Justice, 6
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Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the
Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and
where he felt he belonged. He answered that he was a "citi- 1 zen
of the world" (kosmopolites) . This made him the rst person known
to have described himself as a cosmopolitan. A century later, the
Stoics had developed that concept further, stating that the whole
cosmos was but one polis, of which the order was logos or right
reason. Living according to that right reason implied showing
goodness to all of human kind. Through early Christianity,
cosmopolitanism was given various interpretations, sometimes quite
contrary to the inclusive notion of the Stoics. Augustine's
interpretation, for example, suggested that only those who love God
can live in the universal and borderless "City of God." Later, the
red- covery of Stoic writings during the European Renaissance
inspired thinkers like Erasmus, Grotius and Pufendorf to draw on
cosmopolitanism to advocate world peace through religious tolerance
and a society of states. That same inspiration can be noted in the
American and French revolutions. In the eighteenth century, enlig-
enment philosophers such as Bentham (through utilitarianism) and
Kant (through universal reason) developed new and very different
versions of cosmopolitanism that serve today as key sources of
cosmopolitan philosophy. The nineteenth century saw the development
of new forms of transnational ideals, including that of Marx's
critique of capitalism on behalf of an international working
class."
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