The Importance of Cosmopolitanism, Sirf?

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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

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and one of today's deepest thinkers about the nature of identity. His scholarly writing, journalism, and novels help us to envision a world in which our professed categories enrich rather than impoverish—or, in his terms, a world which reveres “universality plus difference.”

In this week’s conversation, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Yascha Mounk discuss neutrality as a liberal ideal, the limits of identity politics, and the merits of race-abolitionism.

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