Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah

With the publication of 1992s In My Fathers House, Kwame Anthony Appiah claimed his place at the forefront of African-American literary and cultural studies. A professor of philosophy at Princeton, he discusses how Western intellectuals and leaders have exaggerated the power of difference while neglecting the power of commonality. Series: Walter H. Capps Center Series [3/2006] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11468]

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[looklikestalin]

wtf this isnt the real kwame

this video is bullshit

[VideoGameCoupons]

oh man! this is engaging!



[robtul12]

@MeatyCockandBallz I'm just curious, why do you think Dr. Appiah is a "hack?"

[lordkragoth69]

The video summary mentions 'In My Father's House', but this video was made after the publication of 'Cosmopolitanism' much more recently. I'm reading them both for a class this semester on African Philosophy. Each is very accessible and very well thought out. The first is definitely more scholarly, written about African Identity throughout history. I haven't finished Cosmopolitanism yet but it is a very fascinating read that I would definitely recommend even to the casual reader.

[AfricanPainters]

@MeatyCockandBallz I just been reading a book written in the 50's entitled African Glory by JC deGraft-Johnson and at the time they considered the Continent of Africa to be populated by over 15,000,000 people..

So fact are always short in the early days. What is interesting is now the African Middle Classes out weighs both the population of USA and Europe so why is it that the West are demanded to give aid to a Continent far wealthier and affluent than ours?

[Burdell22000]

@TrickyEmu USA tried to solve "drug trafficking" in a world-wide level before it was a harmful issue to society.

[Hershey]

Philosophical thought is a cognitive process. One's "brilliance," in that respect, has nothing to do with statistical or factual accuracy. I'm not sure why you are comparing ignorance with intellect. We may not all be bright, but we most certainly are all ignorant about one thing or another.

[stesfay]

smart

[maureenOWW]

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]

'This is a brilliant man talking.' He certainly isn't a knowledgable man. 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.'

See the problem there?