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Author Van Hooft, Stan

Title Cosmopolitanism : a Philosophy for Global Ethics
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Cosmopolitanism and patriotism; 2. Human rights; 3. Global justice; 4. Lasting peace; 5. Towards a global community; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Cosmopolitanism.
Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Cosmopolitanism.
Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects.
International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317492351
1317492358
1844651924
9781844651924
1844651932
9781844651931