Statecraft today is concerned with wealth
creation not value creation, but the language
of patria and pietas need not be archaic.
Indeed, if we are to have global rights and
cosmopolitan citizenship, we need to evolve
a language of obligation and virtue. What
commitments might a cosmopolitan citizen
have? We suggest that one answer would be
respect for other cultures and that this commitment
to protect the cultural multiplicity of
the global commonwealth would constitute a
cosmopolitan virtue. We detect elements of
this development in the theory of cosmopolitan
democracy that has been promoted by
writers such as David Held (1995).