La tradición cosmopolita

The cosmopolitan political tradition in Western thought begins with the Greek Cynic Diogenes, who, when asked where he came from, replied that he was a citizen of the world, implicitly affirming the equality of all human beings. In this sense, the idea that politics should treat human beings as equals with each other and with a value that goes beyond the economic is the basis of many successes in the contemporary Western political imagination. The cosmopolitan tradition expands Nussbaum's work and urges us to focus on the humanity we share.