Cosmopolitanism as the existential condition of humanity


Autoria(s): Josephides, Lisette
Data(s)

01/11/2010

Resumo

Cosmopolitanism as the existential condition of humanity refers to the view that human beings are both transcendent and social. This is argued through another pair of concepts, commonality and difference. If humans are moral, it is because they recognise each other as sharing a basic ontology. But this morality is expressed in the sort of regard that separates ‘me’ from ‘you’. Two aspects of difference are elaborated: foreignness feared as alien but also found in oneself, and alterity as irreducibly other. How can these differences keep us both individual and social?

Identificador

http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/cosmopolitanism-as-the-existential-condition-of-humanity(abc06b53-46e6-48b6-842b-ce9478f3f31c).html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00120.x

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Fonte

Josephides , L 2010 , ' Cosmopolitanism as the existential condition of humanity ' Social Anthropology , vol 18 , no. 4 , pp. 389-395 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00120.x

Tipo

article