Kwame Anthony Appiah

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1954

Ghanian-British-American philosopher and writer

Worked at Duke University

philosopher, university teacher, novelist, journalist, academic

Quotations with a citation

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you."

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."

Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality."

My people—human beings—made the Great Wall of China, the Sistine Chapel, the Chrysler Building: these things were made by creatures like me."

In the libraries

Open Library Africana · 2005 View library record ↗ Open Library Dusk of dawn · 1940 View library record ↗ Open Library Peau Noire, Masques Blancs · 1952 View library record ↗ Open Library The ethics of identity · 2004 View library record ↗ Open Library The honor code · 2010 View library record ↗ Open Library The lies that bind · 2018 View library record ↗

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