Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers. |
Contents
The Shattered Mirror | 1 |
The Escape from Positivism | 13 |
Facts on the Ground | 33 |
Moral Disagreement | 45 |
The Primacy of Practice | 69 |
Imaginary Strangers | 87 |
Cosmopolitan Contamination | 101 |
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