Commencement 2008: Kwame Anthony Appiah

The 2008 Commencement address delivered by Princeton University Professor of Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah.

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[Hershey]

I see you are copy pasting your comments in every video of Kwame. Clearly, you don't believe what you say; otherwise, you wouldn't go to such lengths to prove someone who heads the largest philosophical organization and professor at Princeton, as being "quite stupid" (it seems you don't even know what stupidity entails). I'd have my work cut out for me too if my task were prove that the earth is flat.

[maureenOWW]

Problem is, he's completely (and quite obviously) wrong. Charlemagnes empire at it's height was 1.2 million square kilometres. The 48 continental united states (not including alaska etc) are over 8 million square kilometres. That's almost SEVEN times the size. Even if he had conquered all of europe up the the borders of russia he would still only be halfway to the size of the US.

So this 'brilliant' man has no actual grasp of basic things like the size of countries, or how to check 'facts'.

[maureenOWW]

'KAA is brilliant.' No he isn't, he's actually quite stupid. In his book review entitled 'How Muslims Made Europe' he states the following:

'Charlemagne's rule included at its high point most of France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, the west of Germany, Italy as far south as Rome, a strip in the north of Spain, and parts of Hungary and the Balkans. At nearly three and a half million square miles, it was larger than the continental United States.'

[phddddd]

I corresponded with him on an imposter using his surname, and he responded promptly and with humor. Seems like a good guy.

[papakilatube]

KAA is brilliant. Too bad about the rain. Read "In My Father's House". It is the definitive treatise on race today, and presages Barack Obama's rise and style of politics, if anyone is interested in that!