Yesterday’s post (here) on “War as an Institution” (1916) elicited comment from some readers about the nature of young Bertrand Russell’s proposed “federation of the world” in comparison to Kant’s federalism.
JS Mill also relevant here. At least as perceived from the West/North, the gap between "civilised" and "savage/backward" peoples was never greater than in the long 19th century.A genuinely cosmopolitan view was intellectually almost unattainable.
JS Mill also relevant here. At least as perceived from the West/North, the gap between "civilised" and "savage/backward" peoples was never greater than in the long 19th century.A genuinely cosmopolitan view was intellectually almost unattainable.
In our reading group we did discuss Mill. I think there were a few cosmopolitans, but fewish