Cosmopolitan Ethics, Umma and Democracy: Between Global Issues and Political Identity Issues in Indonesia

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10.2991/icsps-17.2018.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cosmopolitanism, democracy, ummah

Abstract

Cosmopolitanism is an ideal goal of many contemporary International Relations theories. The main idea conveyed is that our moral obligations as human beings need not be limited by state's boundaries or any other structures. "Citizen of the world" is the main term of this concept. On the other hand, there is also a concept of umma which is termed by many scholars as Islamic community or community of believer. The discussion and comparison between cosmopolitanism and umma is quite rare. Related to that, this paper argues that the Umma and cosmopolitanism are two similar concepts; however they derive from two different civilizations. Democracy in this case is a tool to sustain both the ummah and cosmopolitanism.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Musa Maliki
AU  - Ahmad Alfajri
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Cosmopolitan Ethics, Umma and Democracy: Between Global Issues and Political Identity Issues in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICSPS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 74
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsps-17.2018.16
DO  - 10.2991/icsps-17.2018.16
ID  - Maliki2017/11
ER  -