Cosmopolitan Ethics In The Perspective Of International Politics

It is should be evaluated objectively and impartially that cosmopolitanism, which is deemed as a kind of international political ethics, has important ethical values in the field of international politics, which is usually considered to have the characteristics of moral failure.Cosmopolitan ethics is a normative concept, which means cognition and position of the relationship with the individual and the other, and also relates to the definition of morality and value judgment in the category of relations between the individual and the other. Cosmopolitanism holds that all people have the responsibility to perfect and enrich overall human nature, and human community should be treated as a whole constituted atomically, and all the individuals are cosmopolites or world citizens, who belong to the same spiritual and ethical community.Substantially, the philosophical foundations of cosmopolitan ethics——individualism and universalism——embody the logical starting point of cosmopolitan ethics, and the core propositions of cosmopolitan ethics imply a certain theoretical goal, by which philosophical phenomena and political objects are researched from the perspective of cosmopolitan ethics. Cosmopolitan ethics holds that the most fundamental value goal and ultimate units of moral concern are human beings as far as the moral object to be concerned and all the individuals are regarded as world citizens as far as the ethical value subject to be concerned.Cosmopolitan ethics has its own point of view on the issues of international politics, such as sovereignty, diplomacy and ethical conflicts. Cosmopolitan ethics make an effort to elevate the game level of realizing world citizen ideal and civil rights from sovereign state up to world, and construct a certain ethical thinking beyond the view of nation-state on that basis. Cosmopolitan ethics holds a view that formation and realization of world citizens ought not to rely on the shell and way of sovereign state only any more and sovereign state ought to return to the normal levels of governance, which were established for the purpose of realization of civil rights and civil society. In the context of cosmopolitanism value-oriented diplomacy is not only the basic model of cosmopolitan diplomacy, but its essential embodiment and main carrier of cosmopolitan diplomacy. International political ethics of cosmopolitanism is a type of thought and response to problems of modernity of national sovereignty, and it thinks that shared value and common ethics are naturally ubiquity with apriority by courtesy of human nature wherever crowds gather.In respect of international political practice of cosmopolitan ethics, Both League of Nations and United States have the essential characteristic of cosmopolitan connotation in different extent although both are outcome of the sovereign state system. Cosmopolitan ethics in the perspective of international Politics is in a theoretic and practical dilemma, and its main predicaments include limits of international political ethical nature, myth of universalism in the international political reality, paradox of international distributive justice and practical difficult problems of humanitarian intervention. World state is the combination point between cosmopolitan ethics and international politics ultimately, and the view of cosmopolitan ethics about world state reflects profoundly ultimate value and moral significance of cosmopolitan ethics in the horizon of international politics.