David Hume and difference as a cosmopolitan principle

Abstract

This article addresses Cosmopolitanism as a theme, with Hume as reference. Hume's cosmopolitanism is concerned at the historical and effective processes of integrating points of view, interests and perspectives that goes along with commercial societies' emergence and advance. At first, I introduce and explain the Humean approach to the theme. In a second moment, I reconstruct and highlight the way in which Hume thought about these processes not as acknowledgment of identity, universality, or impartiality of points of views, but rather of its differences, particularities, and partiality. I argue that the Humean stance is promising when it comes to deal with the question that arises from Cosmopolitanism as a subject: What is the extent of the cosmopolitan domain? Who is inside this domain, and who is outside it?