TY - BOOK AU - Nussbaum,Martha Craven TI - Cosmopolitan tradition : a noble but flawed ideal SN - 9780674052499 AV - JZ1308 .N87 2019 U1 - 306 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Cosmopolitanism KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index; World citizens -- Duties of justice, duties of material aid: Cicero's problematic legacy -- The worth of human dignity: two tensions in Stoic cosmopolitanism -- Grotius: a society of states and individuals under moral law -- "Mutilated and deformed": Adam Smith on the material basis of human capabilities -- The tradition and today's world: five problems -- From cosmopolitanism to the capabilities approach N2 - The cosmopolitan tradition begins with Diogenes, who claimed as his identity "citizen of the world." Martha Nussbaum traces the cosmopolitan ideal from ancient times to the present, weighing its limitations as well as merits. Using the capabilities approach, Nussbaum seeks to integrate the "noble but flawed" vision of world citizenship with cosmopolitanism's concern with moral and political justice for all.-- ER -