Cosmopolitanism and the deeply religious

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Journal of Beliefs and Values
Volume | Issue number 30 | 1
Pages (from-to) 49-60
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE)
Abstract
The authors provide a defence of cosmopolitanism from a liberal perspective, examining its moral underpinnings, including moral obligations predicated on a belief in common humanity and the fundamental dignity of human people, cultural capacities that include an embrace of pluralism and a fallibilist disposition, and pragmatist resolve in finding humanitarian solutions to real problems that people face. The authors also scrutinise the ideal of cosmopolitanism by considering the 'deeply religious' as the sort of people about whom it may be said that irreconcilable tensions exist between certain types of commitment and/or belonging and what the demands of cosmopolitanism involve.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1080/13617670902784550
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