Promoting a cosmopolitan citizenship through philosophical inquiry

Cosmopolitanism can be seen as a frame of mind: since we need a new cosmopolitan syntax of reality, we also need a new grammar of thought based on a socio-scientific “ rationality” which helps us in the “acknowledgment of the otherness“ of “those who are culturally different“, “the future“, nature“, “the object“ and “other rationalities"(Beck, 2006). Cosmopolitanism can be seen as “a method by which to theorize the transformation of subjectivity in terms of relations of self, Other and world”, which involves “cosmopolitan dimensions of ways of thinking, cognition and feeling that derive neither from the native culture nor from the culture of the Other, but from the interaction of both”; this is to view subjectivity as essentially relational, and the social realm as a sphere of social relations and inter-subjective activity rather than an object (‘society’)(Delanty, 2006). Cosmopolitanism can be seen as a frame of mind: since we need a new cosmopolitan syntax of reality, we also need a new grammar of thought based on a socio-scientific “ rationality” which helps us in the “acknowledgment of the otherness“ of “those who are culturally different“, “the future“, nature“, “the object“ and “other rationalities"(Beck, 2006).