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‘Who Is My Neighbour?’ T.H. Green and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Ethical Citizenship

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Ethical Citizenship

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The key contention of this paper is that the work of T. H. Green provides us with the resources for reconciliation between cosmopolitan and communitarian concerns, thus offering the possibility of international ethical citizenship. For Green, the ethical citizen is what we might call a ‘cosmopolitan communitarian’ (or perhaps a ‘communitarian cosmopolitan’). The first section, ‘Ethical Citizenship’ presents aspects of ethical citizenship. The second section, ‘Cosmopolitanism’ presents Green’s cosmopolitan thought on the expansion of the area of common good. The third section, ‘Against Cosmopolitanism’ presents objections to this, which underline the importance of communitarian ties for ethical citizenship. Finally, the fourth section, ‘Reconciling Ethical Citizenship with Cosmopolitanism’ will make the case that Green provides us with a way to overcome this obstacle: ethical citizenship need know no boundaries, as solidarity and common feeling may be created without recourse to history, geographical barriers may be overcome, and both multilevel citizenship and what I term the ‘recognition of persons’ lead necessarily to the expansion of the area of common good within which ethical citizenship is possible.

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    Matt Hann

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Hann, M. (2014). ‘Who Is My Neighbour?’ T.H. Green and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Ethical Citizenship. In: Brooks, T. (eds) Ethical Citizenship. Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329967_10

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