Topic > cosmopolitanism - 1697

IntroductionCosmopolitanism is a Western concept that summarizes the needs of social agents to understand political and cultural values, broader than their country of origin on a global level. Cosmopolitanism is an ancient Greek word meaning citizens of the world. In recent years, cosmopolitanism has gained considerable importance and scholars of cosmopolitan thought on mutual responsibilities in the global and international world are emerging. Cosmopolitanism promotes positive treatment towards differences, having a great desire to build broad piety and a peaceful global community of citizens who should be able to communicate across cultural and social boundaries and universal solidarity. According to the German scholar Voltaire in a characteristic conversation of "Cosmopolitan" ideals ... they consider all men on earth as many branches of a single family, and the universe as a state of which they, together with too many other rational beings, are citizens , promoting together, under the general law of nature, the perfection of the whole, while each in his own fashion concerns his own well-being” (1784 p. 241, Appiah, 2006, Ethics in a World of Strangers, p.13). The French scholar Wieland spoke fluently about the obligation to understand the people with whom we share the planet, clearly linking this need with our global economic interdependence. “Nourished by the produce of their land, clothed in their cloth, amused by the game they invented, taught by their ancient moral fables, why do we neglect to understand the mind of this nation, among which our European traders have traveled ever since they could find a way to reach them” (Tauscher Merkur, August 1788, p.107, Appiah, 2006, Ethics in a World of Strangers, p.13,). According to Daniel Archbu...... al center of the document ...... particular peoples who shape our moral life of global responsibility and make us effective citizens of the world. Appiah's theory encourages following both local and universal loyalties and devotions and rejecting the fact that they necessarily conflict with each other. When we look at the world, there are different ways of living and thinking and all disagreements cannot be resolved, but we must accept differences and embrace pluralism. Cross-cultural conversations about cultural values ​​do not have the ability to end in disagreement, but it is possible to agree even if we don't know why. He gives the example of the war between the United States and Iraq and says that the war was not started because the cultural values ​​of the people of both countries are different, but the reason is that politicians in the United States accept the war and not the war . dialogue.