This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with…

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Cosmopolitans begin, I think, with a sense of one thing we all certainly share, which is our fallibility. Nobody has reason to be confident…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

“It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

I've long had the idea that the factors that are most important in determining what we believe, how we live, and what we accomplish…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life, I have…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or, unfortunately, undermining…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

“What were they thinking?' we ask about our ancestors, but we know that, a century hence, our descendents will ask the same thing about…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah