The Ethics of Identity Appiah Kwame Anthony
The Ethics of Identity Appiah Kwame Anthony A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as…
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The Ethics of Identity Appiah Kwame Anthony
A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. Is diversity of value in itself? To what extent do they constrain our freedom, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?
Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions, developing an account of ethics that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances and that takes aim at clichs and received ideas about identity. Has the rhetoric of human rights been overstretched? This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life--and the claims of identity, these large and often