Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 25, Issue 2, 2015

Human Being. Its Nature and Functions. II

Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Some Challenges

This paper discusses certain major challenges to the justification of ethical cosmopolitanism's existence. They can be understood in the context of effects of the global economy on human life and values, due its social imbalances and inequalities. The foremost guiding idea of ethical cosmopolitanism maintains that all humans must be considered to be equal. However, this postulate is questioned in the globalization era.