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- Title
Classical Stoicism and the Birth of a Global Ethics: Cosmopolitan Duties in a World of Local Loyalties.
- Authors
HILL, LISA
- Abstract
Do I have responsibilities to strangers and, if so, why? Is a global ethics possible in the absence of supra-national institutions? The responses of the classical Stoics to these questions directly influenced modern conceptions of global citizenship and contemporary understandings of our duties to others. This paper explores the Stoic rationale for a cosmopolitan ethic that makes significant moral demands on its practitioners. It also uniquely addresses the objection that a global ethics is impractical in the absence of supra-national institutions and law.
- Subjects
ETHICS research; COSMOPOLITANISM; WORLD citizenship; STOICISM; LOYALTY
- Publication
Social Alternatives, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0155-0306
- Publication type
Article