CT302 Lecture 13: Week 10 Nov. 19
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As a virtuous ecological citizen with obligations to justice we are acting. Thick cosmopolitanism: from good samaritan to obligated actor responsibly when we recognize the extent of our ecological footprint/debt and our duty to act on that knowledge. Cosmopolitanism a term originated in the 4th century bc. Talked about being a person of the world, fellow citizens. All care about one another, but be different: this is good. Cosmo is an ideal, something we have to keep trying to move towards. A way of engaging, acting in a just manner (ideas that we can put into practice) We have an obligation to act on our capacity. Imagine you do not live where you do and make arrangements concerning. Make a list of how you might act differently if you had a cosmo ethic.
