GERMAN 56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cosmopolitanism
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Contamination could have a positive value not only negative. Cosmopolitanism helps people rethink contamination as a positive ordeal. World of art deeply international and important to think about it in more cosmopolitan and fluid terms. Universalism issues w/ other people -- and they can"t be different than us. Shouldn"t care about what the similarities between people are, but respect them since they are people. All of us are universals, and we all have a way we think the world works, but there is another alternative. Ch 10: kindness to strangers: reason, feeling. The problem w/ feeling is we naturally feel closer to our family/direct neighbors that we feel comfortable w/ Question is how we deal w/ our own feelings when we are pushed to a certain direction. If you can prevent something bad from happening at the cost of something less bad, you ought to do it .
