Martha Nussbaum pursues this “noble but flawed” vision of world citizenship as it finds expression in figures of Greco-Roman antiquity, Hugo Grotius in the seventeenth century, Adam Smith during the eighteenth century, and various contemporary thinkers. She confronts its inherent tensions: the ideal suggests that moral personality is complete, and completely beautiful, without any external aids, while reality insists that basic material needs must be met if people are to realize fully their inherent dignity. Given the global prevalence of material want, the lesser social opportunities of people with physical and cognitive disabilities, the conflicting beliefs of a pluralistic society, and the challenge of mass migration and asylum seekers, what political principles should we endorse? Nussbaum brings her version of the Capabilities Approach to these problems, and she goes further: she takes on the challenge of recognizing the moral claims of nonhuman animals and the natural world.

The insight that politics ought to treat human beings both as equal to each other and as having a worth beyond price is responsible for much that is fine in the modern Western political imagination. The Cosmopolitan Tradition extends Nussbaum’s work, urging us to focus on the humanity we share rather than all that divides us.


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1. World Citizens

• 2. Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero’s Problematic Legacy
• 3. The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism
• 4. Grotius: A Society of States and Individuals under Moral Law
• 5. “Mutilated and Deformed”: Adam Smith on the Material Basis of Human Capabilities
• 6. The Tradition and Today’s World: Five Problems
• 7. From Cosmopolitanism to the Capabilities Approach
• Notes
• References
• Acknowledgments
• Index