Andreas Önnerfors
“ Men are not to be essentially distinguished …”: cosmopolitan foundations of freemasonry
One of the earliest English translations of André Michel Ramsay’ s‘ Discours’, in‘ The Scientific magazine, and Freemason’ s repository’ 797, p. 35-7
Cosmopolitan Craft – Crafting the Cosmopolis
This paper is an attempt to identify ideas on world citizenship in a series of fundamental texts related to freemasonry 1. It is a sketch rather than a final product – one typical characteristic of a working paper it is a rough stone as compared to a perfect ashlar; an invitation to colleagues and friends to contribute their thoughts, comments and reactions.
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This paper is a much supplemented and elaborated version of the authors recently published chapter” Cosmopolitanism and what is’ Secret’: Two Sides of Enlightened Ideas concerning World Citizenship” in The Idea of Cosmopolis: History philosophy and politics of world citizenship( Ed. Rebecka Lettevall and My Klockar Linder), Södertörn Academic Studies 37, Södertörn 2008, pp. 65-86.
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