SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Global Governance, Communitarianism, Age Of Enlightenment
20 Dec 2016
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Cosmopolitanism imagines a world order in which the idea of human rights is a basic principle of justice and mechanisms of global governance are established specifically for their protection. The cosmopolitan imagination is not restricted to this agenda. It incorporates wider issues concerning social solidarity across borders, the legitimacy of international law, the effectiveness of global governance, the role of global civil society, and the establishment of peaceful relations between and within states. It also envisages the reformation of political community at national and transnational levels to render them compatible with and supportive of cosmopolitan values. However, it would be implausible to think of the cosmopolitan imagination apart from some notion of human rights, that is, of rights that belong to all people by virtue of their human status. Toronto is a cosmopolitan city because of so many different cultural influences. There are pockets of neighborhoods that remain diverse from each other.
