Cosmopolitanism

for each. I will go through arguments that there is an obligation and choose the strongest as my main argument and then go through and reject an argument against there being an obligation. First I will start by explaining the basic views of Cosmopolitanism. This is the view that distributive justice, the redistribution of money from the wealthy to the poor, should be spread worldwide and not just in one nation. This can come in…

Therefore, I then use the film 18 Jus Soli: The Right to Citizenship in Italy, which documents those excluded from Italian citizenship in my analysis of these laws. I examine this phenomenon through the lens of three theories, those being about cosmopolitanism, economics, and politics…

show all of these things are representing the Black South. In chapter two, Cameron D. Lippard says that Robinson “sets up one of [her] more important theoretical themes of explaining black identity in the South that she identifies as ‘country cosmopolitanism’ in the American south” (Lippard). This chapter is where most of her respondents explain to her about the south really is and isn’t about. Chapter three is about how black southerners experience race and interact with whites, even though…

In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “Changing Our Minds”, he proposes “conversation” is a method that can create cosmopolitanism all around the world, which means connecting all people despite their beliefs basically removing boundaries symbolically not literally. Appiah made many claims and gave many examples that made it easier to visualize how conversation could help conflicts between people. Different countries have different cultures, although many of them may have similar practices they may do these…

Kant’s essay ‘Perpetual Peace’ aims to provide the ideal conditions and institutions required to achieve long-term peace. Whilst Kant offers reasonable preliminary articles, they are inapplicable to the modern era of increasing military technology, economic interdependence, and human rights discourse. Kant further proposes concrete institutions, however, they are limited by: his universalistic notion that all Republics will avoid war regardless of national histories, his proposal of a federation…

learn to the way we play and socialize. Due to the progression of technology, many philosophers have questioned how this major change will have an impact on the human society. Kwame Anthony Appiah, in his essay “Making Conversation”, discusses cosmopolitanism, the ideal of respecting and understanding others, can be achieved by communicating and learning about each other. His goal is most likely attainable due to the fact that…

‘Modernity’, namely, the societal transformations brought by the industrial and political revolutions that started in the eighteenth century in Europe, has been theorised by a number of analytics as leading to the emergence of sociology. Following the social evolutions of the ‘Great Transformation’ that happened in Europe, as Gurminder K. Bhambra explains in the beginning of her article Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another ‘Missing Revolution’ (2007), the birth sociology was seen as an attempt…

The subject matter of this study is not to explore the much researched concepts of ‘Diaspora’ ‘hybridity’ and ‘identity crisis’ from traditional colonial discourse, but to engage in more recent and emerging trends of globalization, shared economy and glocalization. In the words of sociologist Ronald Robertson, ‘glocalization means the simultaneity-the co-presence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies’. The integration process of ‘marginalized’ has started before the demise of…

change people from another culture. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea of Universals in Cosmopolitanism to the character, Nwoye in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Nwoye would change through the sharing of religion of the white men and other ideas. Nwoye could change throughout Things Fall Apart by the love he shared with other cultures about Christianity. Appiah states in Cosmopolitanism, “Once we have found enough we share, there is the further possibility that we will be able to…

Book Review Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship by Adrienne Clarkson In 2014, television personality, journalist, best selling author, public servant and Canada’s first visible minority Governor General (Koch, 2010), Adrianne Clarkson delivered the CBC Massey Lectures (Nagy, 2014) in which she shared her thoughts through a collection of essays in which she explored citizenship in Canada and what it means to be a citizen of this country by reflecting on her own journey of immigrating as a…