cosmopolitanism
koz-moh-POL-ih-tan-iz-um
ˌkɒzməˈpɒlɪtənɪzəmListen
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the moral and political view that all human beings belong to a single global community and have obligations to one another that transcend national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries; in political philosophy, cosmopolitanism ranges from moral cosmopolitanism (all persons have equal moral worth regardless of nationality) to institutional cosmopolitanism (advocating global governance structures to fulfil cross-border obligations in areas such as justice, poverty, and climate change); associated with Immanuel Kant's vision of perpetual peace and contemporary thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Pogge
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