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Cosmopolitanism : A Philosophy for Global Ethics by Stan van Hooft; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 id

Who reads Cosmopolitanism : A Philosophy for Global Ethics?

Author

Stan van Hooft;

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283456784

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science