Kwame Anthony Appiah Quotes
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British and American philosopher whose work has reshaped contemporary debates on ethics, identity, race, and cosmopolitanism. In My Father's House offered a critical philosophical history of African and African-American identity politics, while The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism defended a moral universalism rooted in conversation across difference rather than the dissolution of particular attachments. The quotes below are attributed to Kwame Anthony Appiah, organized by topic.
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Freedom
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Attributed to Kwame Anthony Appiah:
“Identity is not a destiny but an inheritance with which we make our lives.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Politics
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“Cosmopolitanism is the name not of the solution but of the challenge.”
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“We are all heirs to and stewards of some part of a common human inheritance.”
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“The conversation across difference begins with the recognition that we share enough to disagree intelligibly.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Virtue
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“Moral revolutions are driven by changes in the meaning of honor.”