You are a citizen of the world: how should you act. - Aeon.

Cosmopolitanism is an idea extending far back in the Western political tradition, beginning, as many scholars have noted, with the Roman conception of universal reason, and captured in the famous quip by the Cynic Diogenes: “I am a citizen of the world”.

This paper argues that the study of citizenship needs to engage with both cosmopolitan and multicultural questions. Despite their difference social and political theory needs to find new ways to bring these concerns together.

Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism. citizenship; for others it points to possibilities for shaping new transnational frameworks for making links between social movements. Yet others invoke. on the streets of cosmopolitan cities, but in the living rooms of more prosaic locales.

According to McIntosh, global citizenship is the ability to view oneself with regard to ones role in the wider world. Additionally, global citizenship emphasizes on the importance of balancing the awareness of one’s self realities with the realities of others who are outside ones perceived self.

The central argument is that cosmopolitanism signals a shift from sociality to humanity, which eyes an all-inclusive society of strangers as its end result. Cosmopolitanism is discussed as a.

The article proceeds with a focus on the universalist stream of cosmopolitan thought, as it is the universalists who are engaged with the European traditions of the cosmopolitan theory of citizenship and the development of the institutional and the ethical frameworks of cosmopolitan citizenship—both of which are already established to some.

Citizenship, he explained, is a “status bestowed on all those who are full members of a community.” Those members share rights, duties, and the protections of a common law. The bonds of modern citizenship grow among them first through the “struggle to win those rights,” and then, once gained, by their “enjoyment.”.

He suggests to the new ruler three ways of holding a sovereign state, which includes destroying of the existing institutions, living in the same area of rule, and let the population continue to live according to their prevailing rules of law.

Traditional approaches argue that appeals to cosmopolitan citizenship amount to little more than an exercise in moral exhortation while the nation-state is the dominant form of political community. Their contention is that the idea of world citizenship may have considerable moral force but, on any strict definition of citizenship, the term is self-evidently and unalterably oxymorolllc.

In the present study the area of citizenship education is covered by a wide range of terms comprising many subjects. These terms include citizenship, civics, social sciences, social studies, world studies, society, and studies of society, life skills and moral education.

The concept of what defines a global citizen varies, for people have their own opinions and say about how they see an ideal one as. Kwame Appiah wrote Cosmopoltianism, and in his opinion, a global citizen is seen as one who sees no division within themselves and “others”; that it is necessary to agree with one another to behave morally.