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Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity

The Good Fight

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The Importance of Cosmopolitanism, Sirf?

I think it's a very good thing if people have a sense of a human identity. And you can encourage that by the things that we think of as cosmopolitan in many domains. We're not going to solve global warming unless we have a significant number of people who know how to care about what happens to people in china, for example. But i'm, in the technical sense, a partial cosmopotton. That is, i think that that level of identification is perfectly consistent with having a strong sense of having special responsibilities to my fellow citizens and family. I vote for a mayor of new york, the governor of new York state and a president of theunited states. And

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