Nussbaum on Kant's Stoic Cosmopolitanism

1. What did Kant base his politics on instead of patriotism or group sentiment?

2. Was Kant communitarian or cosmopolitan?

3. Why was so much attention given to Kant's ‘Toward Perpetual Peace' in 1995?

4. What was Nussbaum's ‘aim' in this paper?

5. Where did the idea of the world citizen receive its first philosophical development?

6. What did Diogenes the cynic mean when he said ‘I am a citizen of the world'?

7. What two things played the biggest role in defining one's humanity for the Cynics?

8. How did the Stoics insist that we should perceive our standing in the world?

9. According to the Stoics, what is the basis for human community?

10. How did the Stoics regard the fact of where one was born?

11. Did the Stoics believe in erecting a world state?

12. How is Kant's categorical imperative from the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals reflective of Stoic ideas?

13. How is Kant's idea of the communal possession of the earth's surface (in the section on hospitality) reflective of Stoic ideas?