Eco-ethica

Volume 9, 2020

Engagement and Philosophical Responsibility

David M. Rasmussen
Pages 55-61

Reflections on Citizen of the World

In my reflections on Peter Kemp’s Citizen of the World I first consider the link between cosmopolitanism and globalization. Second, I examine the historical analysis of the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism following it from its origins in ancient Greece to its manifestation in our contemporary world. Third, I reflect on the way in which cosmopolitanism can become the hermeneutic basis for a philosophy of education, the principal claim of the book.