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Jan 22, 2007 in the debates over diversity, rights, group identities or group conflict, the ethics of identity, is the land of lucidity. The philosophy, cosmopolitanism, is the subject of his new book. In this inspiring meditation on global ethics, the eminent political philosopher appiah poses old questions made urgent by globalization. Taking a descriptive rather than a prescriptive view, appiah, the laurance s. Rockefeller university professor of philosophy and the center for human values at princeton university, contends that the. Appiahs answers this with his personal story, history, literature, and philosophy. He asserts adopting cosmopolitanism as a worldview is far more ennobling, universal, and integrative than other worldviews and identities.
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This book opposes common misconceptions which usually relate philosophers to espousing several beliefs of philosophy. But this book has teeth, particularly when appiah looks hard at the emphasis on moral dilemmas like the trolley problems. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. He went on to clare college, cambridge university, in england, where he took the b. Would you kill the fat man the trolley problem and what your. Grayling, martha nussbaum, peter singer, kwame anthony appiah, michael.
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