Cosmopolitan citizenship

This power point presentation is about the modern concepts of citizenship, liberal theories of citizenship, Cosmopolitan citizenship etc. This power point presentation also give brief depiction about Immanuel Kant and Cosmopolitan citizenship concept.

1. KHUDIRAM BOSE CENTRAL COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE TUTORIAL ASSIGNMENT NAME: MONIKA SEMESTER: VI CU ROLL NO: 192222-11-0118 CU REGISTRATION NO: 222-1211-0140-19 COLLEGE ROLL NO: 419 EMAIL ID: [email protected] PHONE NO: 9588011677 COURSE: DSE B3 CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBALISED WORLD TOPIC: COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP MENTOR: PROF. SUPREETA MEHTA

2. INTRODUCTION Citizenship is a multidimensional concept that means membership in a specific nation-state and the formal rights and obligations that this membership entails. Citizenship can also be understood as a status and an identity. Citizenship  refers to membership conferred by a state. Citizens of a nation-state may include those who see themselves as part of a single nation based on a common culture or ethnicity . 2

3. MODERN CONCEPT OF CITIZENSHIP The modern notion of citizenship acknowledges individuals’ ability to make judgements about their own lives, which are not predetermined by their race, religion, class, gender, or any other single aspect of their identity. Citizens formally enjoy a legitimate and equal membership to society. They are conceived of as bearing rights and exercising these rights equally with other citizens . Modern citizenship was born of the nation-state in which certain rights and obligations were allocated to individuals under its authority. 3

4. LIBERAL THEORY OF CITIZENSHIP 4 Liberal theory, whether of citizenship or of anything else, begins with the individual. Liberalism’s view of the individual shape its views of all other social aggregations, including the state. The liberal concept of citizenship has traditionally bound together equality before the law and the actualization of social justice. Welfare-liberals, especially, have concentrated on equality. The law is considered color-and gender blind, according to many liberal theorists this is the only way to guarantee equality within society.

5. COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP 5 Cosmopolitanism is derived from the word kosmopolites which means citizen of a world. Diogenes is the first cosmopolitan philosopher who asserted that “ I am a citizen of the world”. He meant by ‘citizen of the world’ a moral perspective, a way of morally engaging with and relating to the world, an engagement that is broad-minded and not parochial. In this case, instead of the nation-state, one’s political membership and allegiance is extended to a world government.

6. The idea of a world state is a controversial one, for both practical and normative reasons. Immanuel Kant, his cosmopolitan credentials notwithstanding, is skeptical of a world state. Since World War II, members of global social movements have resurrected the notion of cosmopolitan citizenship to defend a strong sense of collective and individual responsibility for the world as a whole, and to support the development. of effective global institutions for tackling global poverty and inequality, environmental degradation, and the violation of human rights. 6

7. Immanuel Kant was an eighteenth-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Kant was the last philosopher of modern Europe to influence the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment period, beginning with thinkers like John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume The way of dealing with the problem of citizenship, of deciding whether it should be national or cosmopolitan in orientation, maintains that individuals have ethical obligations to the rest of the human race which can overrule their obligations to fellow citizens. This is the essence of the Kantian conception of cosmopolitan citizenship. IMMANUEL KANT AND COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP 7

8. WANT BIG IMPACT? Cosmopolitan citizenship has different associations and meanings. It is sometimes interpreted as a common global political relationship under a world state. That is, it is seen as a global form of citizenship in the ordinary legal-political sense. 8 Kant's theory of the state and international relations is instructive because while it clearly subscribed to the view that world citizenship invites the citizens of separate states to have a deeper moral concern for human beings elsewhere, it also provided the bridge to a richer conception of transnational citizenship. Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant used the concept of world citizenship more positively to promote a stronger sense of moral obligation between members of separate sovereign states

9. IN TWO OR THREE COLUMNS YELLOW Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange. 9 A CIVILIAN IS TRAINED TO THROW MOLOTOV COCKTAILS TO DEFEND UKRAINE AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INVASION

10. 10 The idea of cosmopolitan citizenship appears prominently in contemporary cosmopolitan political theory We may note that the principal exponents of this form of citizenship strive to revive The ancient Stoic ideal that individuals should regard themselves as belonging to two communities: their particular cities or states, and humanity. They regard cosmopolitan citizenship as important in encouraging national citizens to take greater account of the I nterests of the world as a whole. .

11. BIBLIOGRAPHY . 11 http://www.oliverdavies.com/ Redox-college.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.co https://library.fes.de/ Ashok Acharya- citizenship in a globalised world(2012,Pearson,India)

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