Reflections about Challenges to a Cosmopolitan Law based on Solidarity: The Vulnerabilty Issue in the Solid and Liquid Modernity Paradigms

Abstract

The present study makes a philosophic exercise of investigative reflection about Cosmopolitism, considering its fondations: unprejudiced coexistence, tolerance and the solidarity in the defense of others’ right to be different. Beginning with liquidmodernity model – whose considerations are based upon the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman´s theory – and considering this model strongly filled with solid-modern elements, a scenario in which individualism surpasses the humanity social forces is built. The essential aims in the reflections made are known to be, firstly, the demonstration of the human society´s difficulty in accomplishing stable relationships with Diversity and with Opposites, stimulating, secondly, the gradual construction of a human companionship based on Solidarity, in other words, Self-commitiment. The objetive is a true and effetive Cosmopolitan Law, as a way of surpassing the Vulnerability Situation of the human beings neutralized by routine´s market battle for satisfaction, knowing that real happiness does not exist.