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    Some cosmopolitan theories are complicit in imperialism, ... — Carmelics
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    Some cosmopolitan theories are complicit in imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism despite their stated opposition to these things

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    • 1.Rawlsian liberal cosmopolitanism universalizes a distinctly Western conception of individual rights, treating it as culturally neutral when it is not.
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    • 2.When Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism frames global poverty as a rights-violation remediable through reformed Western-led institutions, it reproduces colonial assumptions about who holds corrective power.
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    • 3.Onora O'Neill's agent-centered cosmopolitanism assigns primary moral agency to powerful actors in wealthy states, structurally silencing the normative claims of those in the Global South.
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan theories that derive universal norms through hypothetical consent procedures, like Beitz's extension of Rawls, exclude actually existing non-Western deliberative traditions from the justificatory process.
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    • 2.Postcolonial critics like Bhambra and Shilliam have demonstrated that cosmopolitanism's 'universal' human subject is historically constructed through the erasure of colonial difference, not despite it.
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    • 1.Some cosmopolitan frameworks focus too narrowly on the responsibilities and perspectives of the affluent
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    • 2.These frameworks conceive of those living in poverty mainly as passive recipients of aid rather than as active agents
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    • 3.Such a focus shows little sensitivity to epistemic justice and the wide range of perspectives that merit being taken seriously
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    Another common objection to cosmopolitanism associates it with imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism. Some cosmopolitans, despite taking themselves to be opposed to imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism, are charged with focusing too narrowly on the responsibilities (and perspectives) of the affluent while conceiving of those living in poverty mainly as the passive recipients of their “aid.” Such focus indeed shows little sensitivity to questions of epistemic justice and to the wide rang
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