Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World
This book analyses five forms of transnational evils and offers cosmopolitan recommendations for reducing their occurrence. With civilisation in crisis it is crucial, now more than ever, to attempt to mitigate the catastrophes that face us in the de
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Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World
Michael H. DeArmey
Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World
Michael H. DeArmey School of Humanities University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-42977-5 ISBN 978-3-030-42978-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42978-2
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Each drop of wine we pour is hope and prayer That people will cast out the plagues that threaten everyone Everywhere they are found, beginning in our own hearts: The making of war, The teaching of hate and violence, Despoliation of the earth, Perversion of justice and government, Fomenting of vice and crime, Neglect of human needs, Oppression of nations and peoples, Corruption of culture, Subjugation of science, learning, and human discourse The erosion of freedoms. —Passage from A Passover Haggadah, by permission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Copyright 1994.
For my parents, Amy and Mack DeArmey and For my professors to whom I owe much Andrew J. Reck Carroll R. Bowman Roy E. Watkins
Preface and Acknowledgements
It may be a commonplace but it is nonetheless true that each person’s life is the product of the interplay of choice, chance, and compulsion (necessity). Such is the case with the writing of this book. One day while looking through the stacks at the university library I chanced upon a book by Mary Midgely with the intriguing title, Wickedness. I
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