Global Citizenship as the Completion of Cosmopolitanism

Bibliographic Data

ID12923544
AuthorsLuis Carrasco Cabrera (0000-0002-7871-6944, University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume4
Issue1
Pages84-104
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3366/e1755088208000104
OpenAlexW2136891002
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited57

A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the context of global human community. They are complementary to the principles of moral cosmopolitanism — those to be used in assessing the justice of global institutions and practices — that have been emphasised by cosmopolitan political theorists. Considering principles of individual and moral cosmopolitanism together can help to provide greater clarity concerning individual duties in the absence of fully global institutions, as well as clarity on individual obligations of justice in relation to emerging and still-developing trans-state institutions

Citizenship · CLARITY · Context (archaeology · Cosmopolitanism · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Global justice · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools