ABSTRACT
The cosmopolitan self is defined within Scruton's, Waldron's, and Appiah's idioms. Appiah states that "cosmopolitans are people who construct their lives from whatever cultural resources to which they find themselves attached". In Scruton's words, cosmopolitanism is "the belief in, pursuit of, a style of life, which shows acquaintance with, and an ability to incorporate the manners, habits, languages, and social customs of cities throughout the world". For Waldron's cosmopolitan self is, a person acquainted with other cultures, capable of incorporating habits, customs, and languages, and consciously seeking the enrichment that various localities around the globe offer to one's identity. To reveal more about cosmopolitan self within the culturalist framework of Scruton's position and Waldron's and Appiah's reactive responses to Scruton-like positions, another interlocutor, an ancient orator Lysias points to an apparent contradiction that contemporary critics of cosmopolitanism are parasitical point although cosmopolitans are rooted and presuppose rootedness, they abandon their patriotic commitments for the sake of rootlessness.
