Explain cosmopolitanism. What does it mean, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of promoting cosmopolitanism in terms of personal identity? Cosmopolitan can be expanded by looking at two extremes: one consisting of a taxing view that an individual has …show more content…
Since cosmopolitanism promotes the basic rights for the whole community, they would uphold the high morals to keep the unity. They would never wrong another person since they have a responsibility and role to uphold. Cosmopolitanism also answers the personhood problem by giving the individual a sense of belonging. Everyone who upholds the high moral duty belongs to the global body. Therefore, everyone will be acknowledged for another “citizen of the world”(). Persistence of personal identity can also apply to it as they receive a reason to exist, and it is that motivates them to keep living their role for the …show more content…
Self is formed by the consciousness of “one’s thoughts and actions”, and to find the identity of a person depends on the extension of time by the linkage of continued memories that passes the consciousness. Locke then addresses the two aspects of human being― “man” and “person”―to distinguish the identity conditions. The identity of the same “man”―human animal― means the continuation of functional organization, like a cub growing up into a bear. The identity of being the same “person”― defined as “thinking intelligent thing with reason and reflection, that can consider itself as the same thinking thing at different points in time and space. Claim that consciousness is inseparable from thinking.”― means the continuation of consciousness. In the end, personal identity is not necessarily the same “man”, but it can only exist by relying on consciousness