Definition of "cosmopolitanism" []

• The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community. (noun)

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• "If you want to defeat the proponents of open immigration, you're going to have to say something about why cosmopolitanism is false -- i.e. the view that all humans are equal objects of moral concern and that they're welfare should be given equal consideration in the design of political institutions and policy."
• "But now this cosmopolitanism is something to celebrate, defiantly, and the people behind the Anti-Nazi League (beneath whose banners I was proud to march in the late 1970s) would be pleased to note the way that ordinary Londoners rallied around the very mixed racial bag of the victims of the 7/7 bombings, a point Bloom makes well."
• "If it had been, boundary disputes might have been expected with the eighteenth century, whose claim to cosmopolitanism is better established."