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Title: | Religion and the Search for a New Cosmopolitanism | Contributor(s): | Maddox, W G (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20759 | Open Access Link: | https://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/index.php/prj/article/view/48 | Abstract: | In a post Cold-War world riven with 'minor' conflicts, and a West anxious about the intermittent threat of terrorist attack, human equality and sodality (fraternity and sorority) require urgent review. Among interesting proposals for a theoretical foundation to human equality is Martha Nussbaum's call for a revived, modern version of Stoicism to teach indifference to race and a neighbourly goodwill. Yet in her concern to avoid 'teleologies' Nussbaum denatures Stoicism by disconnecting it from its transcendent foundations. A problem for the modern world is to maintain the authority of states, with their capacity to produce relief for the poor and oppressed along with their capacity to dominate, while having them absorb the ideals of cosmopolitanism into their own policy-formation. It is incumbent on the democratic state, the progenitor of the cosmopolitanism of both Cynicism and Stoicism, to promote the ideals of human dignity and equality. Nussbaum's Stoicism scarcely helps, but there are globalizing organizations, such as the United Nations and its agencies, and globalized religious organizations, as advanced by Hans Küng, which may supply the institutional foundation. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Politikologija Religije, 8(2), p. 239-261 | Publisher: | Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance | Place of Publication: | Serbia | ISSN: | 1820-659X 1820-6581 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220405 Religion and Society 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 500405 Religion, society and culture 440811 Political theory and political philosophy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified 940201 Civics and Citizenship |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230201 Civics and citizenship | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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