cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality___nother name for _love_.

The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments and commitments to the group that one finds significant.

Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan discourse is about turning a _compassionate gaze_ onto others regardless of one's nationality and citizenship, origin of birth, religion, gender; race and ethnicity, sexuality, or ability

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization of the inextricable interconnectedness of I-ness/me-ness and we-ness/us-ness is the round for an authentic solidarity with one another in spite of and regardless of the difference.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...