Collective Agency and Global Non-Domination

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ID23202022
AuthorsFabian Schuppert (0000-0002-0460-4835, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages255-267
Publication date2013-07-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCosmopolitanism Versus Noncosmopolitanism Critiques Defenses Reconceptualizations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199678426.003.0013
OpenAlexW2302118489
ISBN9780199678426
LanguageEN
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One of the most common objections to strong forms of cosmopolitanism is the charge that cosmopolitanism is unable to properly accommodate claims to collective agency and collective self-determination below the world-state level. However, as this chapter argues, this criticism of strong cosmopolitanism is unwarranted, since cosmopolitans can and should promote collective agency and collective self-determination on the sub-world-state level. In fact, within a theory which sees the realization of people’s fundamental interests, which includes an interest in avoiding global domination, as the primary task of justice, cosmopolitans want to argue for collective self-determination and collective agency on a range of different levels, highlighting the fact that claims to self-determination are always social-relational claims, which need to be justified to all those whose fundamental interests are affected. Strong cosmopolitanism thus neither rejects claims to (properly conceived) collective self-determination, nor requires the creation of a centralized world state.

Agency (philosophy) · Collective action · Collective responsibility · Cosmopolitanism · Criticism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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