The cosmopolitan tradition a noble but flawed ideal

The cosmopolitan tradition begins with Diogenes, who claimed as his identity "citizen of the world." Martha Nussbaum traces the cosmopolitan ideal from ancient times to the present, weighing its limitations as well as merits. Using the capabilities approach, Nussbaum seeks to integrate the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
Subjects:
Cosmopolitanism > Philosophy.
Cosmopolitisme > Philosophie.
89.06 political philosophy
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • World citizens
  • Duties of justice, duties of material aid: Cicero's problematic legacy
  • The worth of human dignity: two tensions in Stoic cosmopolitanism
  • Grotius: a society of states and individuals under moral law
  • "Mutilated and deformed": Adam Smith on the material basis of human capabilities
  • The tradition and today's world: five problems
  • From cosmopolitanism to the capabilities approach

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