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    The tension between cosmopolitanism and local attachments... — Carmelics
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    The tension between cosmopolitanism and local attachments is real but unproblematic

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    • 1.Conflict between cosmopolitan obligations and local attachments is inevitable
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    • 2.Acknowledging this conflict is a necessary part of understanding what cosmopolitanism entails
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    • 3.The existence of such conflict does not undermine cosmopolitanism
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    • 1.Communitarian thinkers like Walzer and MacIntyre argue that moral obligations are constitutively embedded in particular communities, not merely contingently limited by them.
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    • 2.If local attachments are constitutive of moral agency itself, cosmopolitan demands do not merely conflict with them but systematically undermine the conditions for any coherent moral life.
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    • 3.A tension that erodes the foundation of moral selfhood cannot be dismissed as unproblematic without begging the question against communitarian moral psychology.
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    • 1.Sidgwick and later Scheffler demonstrated that agent-relative permissions create irreducible asymmetries between impartial and partial demands that no unified moral theory has successfully dissolved.
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    • 2.If the tension between cosmopolitan and local obligations lacks a principled resolution, institutional design and individual deliberation face genuine, practically unresolvable dilemmas rather than manageable trade-offs.
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    • 3.Calling a tension 'unproblematic' while it generates irresolvable first-order moral conflicts conflates theoretical acknowledgment of tension with the practical problem of action guidance.
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    It is often assumed that cosmopolitanism must necessarily be in tension with more local attachments to friends, family or compatriots. Some cosmopolitans believe such conflict is inevitable and a necessary part of understanding what cosmopolitanism entails but that this implication is unproblematic (Ypi 2013). Others argue for different ways in which the apparent tensions could be resolved (Pogge 2013, Tan 2004). As we see above, Pogge emphasizes the clear separation of spheres in which equal c
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