Kwame Anthony Appiah





Kwame Anthony Appiah

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in London, The United Kingdom
May 08, 1954

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Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.

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* Sir Patrick Scott Mystery (as Anthony Appiah)


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In February 1571, on his 38 th birthday, a one-time lawyer and courtier had a Latin inscription incised on a beam in his study. "Worn out with the slavery of the court and of public ...

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Average rating: 3.70 · 2,326 ratings · 288 reviews · 61 distinct works · Similar authors
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in ...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
The Ethics of Identity
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
The Honor Code: How Moral R...
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Experiments in Ethics
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
In My Father's House: Afric...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
Thinking It Through: An Int...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Africana
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4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions
Color Conscious: The Politi...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
The Dictionary of Global Cu...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
Early African-American Clas...
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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“In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don’t really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else’s, and in many circumstances actually less so.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah

“Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead”
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, The Ethics of Identity

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