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UGC NET August 2024 Political Science
Cosmopolitans argue that citizenship should extend to the:
ACountry in which an individual resides
BPeople based upon where a person is born
CWorld as a whole ✓ Correct
DPersons accepted by Governments based on laws and rules
Correct answer: (C) World as a whole — Cosmopolitans argue that citizenship should extend to the world as a whole, so the answer is option 3.
Explanation
★Cosmopolitans argue that citizenship should extend to the world as a whole, so the answer is option 3.
★Cosmopolitanism holds that all human beings belong to a single moral community, regardless of nationality or birthplace.
★Its roots lie with the Stoics and with Diogenes, who called himself a citizen of the world, and it is revived in Kant's idea of cosmopolitan right.
★Tying citizenship to the country of residence or the place of birth is the ordinary nation-state view that cosmopolitanism rejects.
★Granting it only to persons accepted by governments is the legal-statist position, again narrower than the cosmopolitan claim.
★Spotting cue: world as a whole and the single human community always mark the cosmopolitan answer.
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