A typical account, for instance from Martha Nussbaum, credits contemporary philosophers with transcending “the frontiers of justice,” courageously leaving behind arbitrary limits normally imposed on distributive justice beyond borders.

This option – there are now competing positions in the field – frequently labels itself cosmopolitan. The idea is that it took up a philosophical legacy going back to the Greek and Roman Stoics, who first called for “citizenship of the world,” before Enlightenment thinkers such as Immanuel Kant revived their visionary program.

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