{"product_id":"cosmopolitanism-by-stan-van-hooft","title":"Cosmopolitanism by Stan van Hooft","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781844651931\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcumen Publishing Ltd (Taylor \u0026amp; Francis \/ Routledge) | 30 May 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCosmopolitanism 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 intercultural tolerance. Rather than offering specific prescriptions for solving global problems, it highlights the ethical issues inherent in them and identifies the moral obligations that individuals, multinational corporations, and governments might have in relation to these issues. Discussing the work of thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Seyla Benhabib, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, Henry Shue, and Peter Singer, this book provides a clear and accessible survey of cosmopolitanism and analyses the reality of the rights and responsibilities that it espouses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IH PENTZ BOOKSELLERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709002829986,"sku":null,"price":140.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/61Odss9KRDL._SY342.jpg?v=1774602680","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/cosmopolitanism-by-stan-van-hooft","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}