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What does it mean—and what has it meant—to be a world citizen? Nussbaum (philosophy & law, Univ. of Chicago; Anger and Forgiveness) sympathetically reminds readers of how the stoic ideal of world citzenship has been developed in key texts by Cicero, Hugo Grotius, and Adam Smith. Nussbaum obviously values this tradition but finds damaging stoicism's cultivation of apathy toward externals. Furthermore, for a political philosophy of international...Log In or Sign Up to Read More