Carolina QuotesConversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another."
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"Global Citizenship". Kwame Anthony Appiah discussing conversation, disagreement and cosmopolitanism.
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My people—human beings—made the Great Wall of China, the Sistine Chapel, the Chrysler Building: these things were made by creatures like me."
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.
Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality."