COSMOPOLIS
"Perhaps enough has been said on the properties of our X named cosmopolis, for a synthetic view to be attempted. It is not a group denouncing other groups; it is not a superstate ruling states; it is not an organization that enrols members, nor an academy that endorses opinions, nor a court that administers a legal code. It is a withdrawal from practicality to save practicality. It is a dimension of consciousness, a heightened grasp of historical origins, a discovery of historical responsibilities. It is not something altogether new … It comes to minds prepared for it by earlier views, for they have taught man to think historically. It comes at a time when the totalitarian fact and threat have refuted the liberals and discredited the Marxists. It stands on basic analysis of compound-in-tension that is man; it confronts problems of which men are aware; it invites the vast potentialities and pent-up energies of our time to contribute to their solutions …
"Finally, it would be unfair not to stress the chief characteristic of cosmopolis. It is not easy."
(Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Vol. 3 of Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, page 266)
From the above, it is clear that cosmopolis is not a superstate ruling states with rules enforced by the military or economic sanctions that are now being used to promote "globalization."
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