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Cosmopolitan/ism

  1. definition
  2. examples and/or illustrations
  3. other useful sources
  4. bibliography


Definition

Adjective

  1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite.
  3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world.

Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolitanism?s=t  Accessed 15/03/2012

  1. Pertinent or common to the whole world: an issue of cosmopolitan import.
  2. Having constituent elements from all over the world or from many different parts of the world: the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt.
  3. So sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world or conversant with many spheres of interest: a cosmopolitan traveler.

 TheFreeDictionary.com http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cosmopolitanism Accessed 15/03/2012

Noun

  1. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

Thinkexist.com http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/cosmopolitanism Accessed 15/03/2012

Synonyms: worldly; urbane; sophisticated

 

Examples and/or Illustrations

Used in a sentence:

Cosmopolitanism ethic refers to treating humanity as the relevant moral community. 

“Cosmopolitanism is compatible with the rejection of politics, or with a pragmatic acceptance of existing political structures such as the states of eighteenth century Europe.  What is crucial to a cosmopolitan attitude is the refusal to regard existing political structures as the ultimate source of value.”

 

Other Useful Sources

Baker, Gideon. 2011. Politicising Ethics in International Relations: Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality. Routledge: Oxon

Brown, Chris. 2011. “The Only Thinkable Figure? Ethical and Normative Approaches to Refugees in International Relations” in Refugees in International Relations. Edited by Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher. Oxford University Press: Oxford

 

Bibliography

Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolitanism?s=t  Accessed 15/03/2012

Dower, Nigel. 2007. “Cosmopolitan Theories” in World Ethics: The New Agenda. Second Edition.  Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh

TheFreeDictionary.com http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cosmopolitanism Accessed 15/03/2012

Thinkexist.com http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/cosmopolitanism Accessed 15/03/2012

 

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