Martha Nussabaum's Patriotism And Cosmopolitanism

In the reading Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism by Martha Nussabaum she shares her opinions on patriotism and cosmopolitanism. The reading starts off with a brief summary about Nussbaum’s life and achievements. Then Nussbaum begins to explain why she favors cosmopolitanism over patriotism. She goes on to explain that patriotism only focus is on bringing unity to one country but cosmopolitanism focuses on bringing unity to the world as a whole. Nussabaum then goes on to present four arguments to support world citizenship rather than national citizenship. She then goes on to conclude that breaks the tradition of a sense of belonging to one nation and that scares people but then that we need to look at all of humanity and not just think of ourselves. In the reading The Unpatriotic Academy by Richard Rorty he shares his opinions on patriotism. Rorty continues to talk about how we have too many “sanctuaries” for left wing political views in our schools. He then goes on to say that we should talk more about patriotism in our schools instead of these left wing ideas. Rorty talks about how these left wing sanctuaries actually help the minority groups. However, he continues to say that this left is actually unpatriotic and doesn’t celebrate national

She uses the argumentative style to advocate for the cosmopolitan ideals over the patriotism ideals. She does this with providing four different arguments against patriotism. The author also uses critical analysis in her paper when she when she breaks down Rorty’s article on patriotism and why it’s a selfish way of thinking. The author engages with Richard Rorty on his piece on patriotism in here forth argument statement. She states that he had some good ideas of being unified but “why stop at the borders of a nation?” Rorty creates context for Nussabaum and makes her ideals far more appealing than his