Cosmopolitanism

application of relevant moral norms” (Amstutz 11). To summarize, ethics is the application of moral principles to real life situations. In terms of translating morality and ethics to international politics there are three ethical traditions: realism, cosmopolitanism (idealism), and communitarianism (principled realism). Out of these ethical traditions spring coordinating strategies of ethical decision making: consequentialism, deontology, and tridimensional ethics.…

people to rally with them. To blame them for taking jobs, spots in schools or on the flip side, bringing drugs, crime and freeloading with them. As Nussbaum, a professor at University of Chicago Law School, quoted in the article ‘Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism’, “We should regard all human beings as our fellow citizens and neighbors.” (Nussbaum 117). Illegal immigrant or not they are still people who have families and personal struggles, we should not treat them like monsters or something…

The Journey, In Retrospect The whole semester of English 5A was like playing with Legos, but with literature. I would use the things I learned previously in high school and build them up with the new things I learned from 5A. It was very difficult to find the right parts and piece them together to create the “perfect” essay. On the other hand, I was able to learn the necessary skills to converse with the authors in the text, From Inquiry to an Academic Writing, by Stuart Greene and April…

26. The doctrine of double _________, which looks at all of the outcomes of specific behavior, could be used to analyze certain aspects of the film. 27. Even though are countless moral theories that could be used to analyze Zero Dark Thirty, it is important to remember that, meaning has to come __________ truth. 28. A proposition is an important phrase in philosophy that could be applied to scenarios in the film. A proposition is a language construction with logic that demonstrates a…

‘Cosmopolitan Right shall be limited to Conditions of Universal Hospitality’ (ibid., p. 105). This is a universal right for all men of the world to be treated kindly when they arrive at other states. An individual can be denied entry into a host state however, he must not be treated harshly as long as his law abiding. Kant believes that the earth belongs to the human race and no one should claim possession of any part of it. From this we can draw that the treatment of refugees in the ongoing…

From an early age, Hawthorne was regarded as a loner and a writer. This was originally his draw for the Brooks Farm community where he was first introduced to transcendentalism. Here he began to be influenced by the thoughts of others, and eventually even his own wife who was a transcendentalist herself. But what is transcendentalism, is it simply a belief, a practice, a religion, or a passage way to freedom? In truth, it is all of these combined. Transcendentalism is a escaped from the world…

In Cousin Phillis, Hope Farm is portrayed as a pastoral idyll, idealising the virtues of rural life that is unaffected by the implied ills of modern civilisation. Unlike Dickens’s dystopian industrial city of Coketown, it is teeming with natural beauty, “so full of flowers” that they overflow from the court and stretch across the pathway to the back of the house (Gaskell 10; pt.1). When Paul Manning arrives at Hope Farm, he is exposed to “the soft September air” that is “tempered by the warmth…

1. • Quality of a city’s institutions This refers to the governance or decision-making framework for competitiveness and includes the political and legal systems of government, public-private collaboration, and the timing of major reforms. A city’s ability to tax, plan, legislate, and enforce laws and regulations strongly correlate with competiveness and require strong institutions. Leadership is part of the equation in how institutions factor into competitiveness but how these institutions…

Kwame Appiah’s “The Case for Contamination” is an article written about the analysis of globalization. He provided a history of globalization, and its effect on the world. Appiah presented the arguments for cosmopolitans, and neo fundamentalists. A cosmopolitan is a “citizen of the world” and is pro-globalization. Cosmopolitans believe in the individual’s culture. Neo fundamentalists are against globalization and believe in preservation of traditional ideals. I read his essay, and felt that I…

The opening ceremony selectively borrows the elements from the British films and keep the perceptions of the Britishness in these films that make them distinctive in global cinematic domains. Through the simulations of Britishness, The ceremony thus becomes a global audio-visual commodities (Tzanelli, 2013: 59). The performance heavily emphasizes on the nationally iconic personality from popular culture such as Mr Bean and James Bond and successfully achieved a blending of the seriousness and…