1. Thick Cosmopolitanism.
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Dobson, Andrew
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POLITICAL science , *POLITICAL obligation , *COSMOPOLITANISM , *HUMANITY , *INTERNATIONALISM , *POLITICAL doctrines - Abstract
This paper analyses the account of political obligation given by cosmopolitans and concludes that this account, which depends on a weak or thin connection between members of common humanity, leaves a motivational vacuum at the heart of cosmopolitanism. An alternative view, according to which material ties that bind prompt obligations of justice in a globalising world, is offered. This is ‘thick cosmopolitanism’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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