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Essay / cosmopolitanism - 1697
IntroductionCosmopolitanism is a Western concept that summarizes the needs of social agents to understand political and cultural values, larger 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 specialists in cosmopolitan thinking on mutual responsibilities are appearing in the global and international world. Cosmopolitanism promotes a positive treatment towards differences, with a great desire to build a broad devotion 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 on the ideal "Cosmopolitans...consider all the peoples of the earth as so many branches of a single family, and the universe as a state of which they, with too many other beings rational, are the citizens, promoting together, according to the general law of nature, the perfection of the whole. , while each in his own way looks after his own well-being” (1784 p. 241, Appiah, 2006, Ethics in a World of Strangers, p.13). French academic Wieland spoke fluently about the obligation to understand the people with whom we share the planet, clearly linking this need to our global economic interdependence. “Fed with the products of their land, dressed in their fabrics, amused by the game they invented, instructed by their ancient moral fables, why should we neglect to understand the spirit of this nation, among which our European traders have traveled since 'they could. find a way to access it” (Tauscher Merkur, August 1788, p.107, Appiah, 2006, Ethics in a World of Strangers, p.13,). According to Daniel Archbu...... middle of paper. .....special peoples who shape our moral lives of global responsibility and make us effective global citizens. Appiah's theory encourages following both local and universal loyalties and devotion and refusing that they necessarily come into conflict with one another. When we look at the world, there are different ways of living and thinking and not all disagreements can be resolved, but we must accept differences and embrace pluralism. Intercultural conversations about cultural values do not have the capacity to end in disagreement, but it is possible to agree even if we do not know the reason. He gives the example of the war between the United States and Iraq and says that the war did not start because the cultural values of the people of the two countries are different, but the reason is that American politicians accept war and not war. dialogue.