The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, want, wrongly, I think, to impose their vision of the world on others. They think not just that there… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one. — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods;… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
