Cosmopolitanism

Because people in poorer countries are more likely than people in richer countries to face severe problems solvable at little cost, it is often a good general heuristic for effective altruists in rich countries to focus their attention on impoverished parts of the world, rather than looking for giving opportunities in their local area.

Because people in poorer countries are more likely than people in richer countries to face severe problems solvable at little cost, it is often a good general heuristic for altruists in rich countries to focus one’stheir attention on impoverished parts of the world, rather than looking for giving opportunities in one’stheir local area.

Because people in poorer countries are more likely than people in richer countries to face severe problems that could be solvedsolvable at little cost, it is often a good general heuristic for altruists in rich countries to focus one’s attention on impoverished parts of the world, rather than looking for giving opportunities in one’s local area (assuming one is from a richer country).area.

BibliographyFurther reading

Kleingeld, Pauline and& Eric Brown (2019)(2002) Cosmopolitanism, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, February 23 (updated 17 October 17.2019).

External links

Section on cosmopolitanism in MacAskill, William & Darius Meissner (2020) Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online TextbookCosmopolitanism: Expanding the moral circle across geography, Oxford.in 'Utilitarianism and practical ethics', Utilitarianism.

Section on cosmopolitanism in MacAskill, WillWilliam & Darius Meissner (2020) Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook, Oxford.

• Kleingeld, Pauline and Eric Brown (2019) Cosmopolitanism, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

Because people in poorer countries are more likely than people in richer countries to face severe problems that could be solved at little cost, it is often a good general heuristic to focus one’s attention on impoverished parts of the world, rather than looking for giving opportunities in one’s local area (assuming one is from a richer country).