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A Noble but Flawed Ideal
 9780674242982, 9780674242999, 9780674242975, 2018057772

Table of contents :
CONTENS

One World Citizens

Two Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero’s Problematic Legacy

Three The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism

Four Grotius: A Society of States and Individuals under Moral Law

Five “Mutilated and Deformed”: Adam Smith on the Material Basis of Human Capabilities

Six The Tradition and Today’s World: Five Problems

Seven From Cosmopolitanism to the Capabilities Approach

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

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