What Cosmopolitanism? Exploring Cosmopolitanism in Political Philosphy

Abstract: During the last decade or so, there has been an uprising for cosmopolitan perspectives in political science. Cosmopolitanism seems to be the new modern approach to global problems. But various conceptions of cosmopolitanism are being used in the debate. Therefore, I look into the different positions to try to distil out some coherence and find different usable sketches when adapting a cosmoplitan perspective on justice, the state and the relatin between communities. I use a critical approach which I call "questioning the ontlogical givens", which means that concepts taken fr granted (such as politica community, the state and the proper relation between states) are being revised and scrutinized. I have found that cosmopolitanism as currently defined by scholars is in many ways a theory of justice. The thesis also gives a pssible apprach to the divide in philosophy bewteen communitarians and csmopolitans, just as it discusses different cosmopolitan positions with regards to the basis of political community. The state under globalization is also discussed, offering a scheme for thinking about the state in cosmopolitanism.