Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view

Despite cosmopolitanism's concern for the world's poor and its concomitant heavy moral demands, cosmopolitans establish a limit to the self's responsibility for the global poor. This contrasts with Emmanuel Levinas's view that the self has an infinite responsibility for the other...

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Main Author: JORDAAN, Eduard
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-18692017-03-24T09:37:59Z Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view JORDAAN, Eduard Despite cosmopolitanism's concern for the world's poor and its concomitant heavy moral demands, cosmopolitans establish a limit to the self's responsibility for the global poor. This contrasts with Emmanuel Levinas's view that the self has an infinite responsibility for the other, a responsibility that derives from the self's questioning of the impact of his freedom on others. From a Levinasian perspective, cosmopolitanism's restriction of the self's responsibility for others creates a sphere of rightful indifference to the needs of the other; lends legitimacy to a disregard of the other; forestalls an ethical awakening to the other; constrains the achievement of a more just global order, given that, from a Levinasian perspective, a better justice is built on the self's open-ended responsibility for the other; and points to a tension at the heart of cosmopolitanism, considering the coexistence of elements that both frustrate and aspire to the achievement of global justice. It is concluded that the achievement of cosmopolitanism's goals would require the acceptance of an open-ended responsibility for the other. 2009-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/870 info:doi/10.1177/030437540903400105 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1869/viewcontent/CosmopolitanismFreedomIndifference_2009.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Levinas cosmopolitanism responsibility otherness global poor Ethics and Political Philosophy Philosophy
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topic Levinas
cosmopolitanism
responsibility
otherness
global poor
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Philosophy
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cosmopolitanism
responsibility
otherness
global poor
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Philosophy
JORDAAN, Eduard
Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
description Despite cosmopolitanism's concern for the world's poor and its concomitant heavy moral demands, cosmopolitans establish a limit to the self's responsibility for the global poor. This contrasts with Emmanuel Levinas's view that the self has an infinite responsibility for the other, a responsibility that derives from the self's questioning of the impact of his freedom on others. From a Levinasian perspective, cosmopolitanism's restriction of the self's responsibility for others creates a sphere of rightful indifference to the needs of the other; lends legitimacy to a disregard of the other; forestalls an ethical awakening to the other; constrains the achievement of a more just global order, given that, from a Levinasian perspective, a better justice is built on the self's open-ended responsibility for the other; and points to a tension at the heart of cosmopolitanism, considering the coexistence of elements that both frustrate and aspire to the achievement of global justice. It is concluded that the achievement of cosmopolitanism's goals would require the acceptance of an open-ended responsibility for the other.
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title Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
title_short Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
title_full Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
title_fullStr Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
title_full_unstemmed Cosmopolitanism, freedom and indifference: A Levinasian view
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2009
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/870
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1869/viewcontent/CosmopolitanismFreedomIndifference_2009.pdf
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