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    worlds are intertwined by the internet, public transportation, restaurants, etc. We are no longer bound to the communities we share morals, location, or resources with. In the introduction of his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of Strangers, Kwame A. Appiah delves into the world of cosmopolitanism on a global scale while discussing other possible ideologies and his arguments for and against them. Appiah’s perspective of cosmopolitanism is that all people in the world belong in a single community

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    The Illusion of Universal Morality Darian Scherbluk OOOOOOO SCS 1150 Professor Stuart Chambers November 17th, 2015. 1 Throughout the chapter “Moral Disagreement” in his work Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah analyzes the issues of morality. Appiah essentially presents his argument in a manner which questions the concept of what is ethically right and wrong. Furthermore, he believes that societies and individuals will inevitably experience moral disagreements. From the author’s perspective, “If

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    If faced with globalization, these people may move away or even learn different languages and just generally become different. This, in Appiah’s view, is not something that we should prevent from happening because within these tiny homogenous pockets are people that long to be different therefore, by allowing contamination to occur, you allow people to shape their own lives instead of them being oppressed into a cultural homogeneity: “there is no place for the enforcement of diversity by trapping

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    Cosmopolitanism is also shown in the arts, which is an engagement with the cultural and artistic and literature life of our societies. The ownership of art belongs to all humankind rather than the geographic location where it was created. Appiah writes “much of the greatest art is flamboyantly international; much ignores nationality altogether.”(126) Similar with Appiah’s critique of science worship, people failed at recognizing the fixed form of judgment that we use when it comes to art appreciation

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    The Myths of Families Essay

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    Question 1: In The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz suggests that society romanticizes past generations of family life and points out that these memories are merely myths that prevent us from “dealing more effectively with the problems facing today’s families” (Coontz x). Coontz proposes that researchers can take empirical data and create misleading causality for that data, thus feeding cultural myth and/or experience. Coontz believes that “an overemphasis on personal responsibility for strengthening

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    incarcerating every person who commits crime without thinking logically: Is this what modernization and our teachings adds up to? Is it even fair that human beings are taught to do these things to us from the very beginning of our educational lives? Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses several points in “How The Future Will Judge Us?” that he believes are negatively affecting our society in terms of how we treat people directly or indirectly. These points include criticism of our prison system, institutionalized

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    family due to a murder he had nothing to do with. Ikemefuna faced the charges of a guilty man while being innocent and everyone knew that. If Ikemefuna faced more cosmopolitan principles, Ikemefuna fate would have been different. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea that a person's beliefs are only rational relative to the beliefs he already possesses it in Cosmopolitanism to Ikemefuna in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the character fate is justified in their beliefs but not in the cosmopolitan

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    Points of Disagreement

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    Points of Disagreement The “Golden Rule” is an ethical idea shared in various religious texts and different ancient philosophers’ statements around the world, and it was paraphrased as “What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others”. Kwame Anthony Appiah argues in the fifth Chapter (Moral Disagreement) of his book Cosmopolitanism that “the Golden Rule is not as helpful as it might at first seem”, and he gives several examples to support his argument. However, I don’t think these examples

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    Article: “The Case for Contamination” by Kwame Anthony Appiah In “The Case for Contamination” the author Kwame Appiah analyzes and points out the many ways in which the world is becoming globalized. He uses many extensive examples to show that the world is getting ‘contaminated’. By ‘contamination’ he means that the mixture of all the innovative values and traditions are damaging and eventually destroying what our ancestors have left us. In his analysis, he describes the gradual transformation

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    Formative Writing I : Identity, Authenticity and Survival by Kandru Manibhushan Rao Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay on Identity, Authenticity and Survival is based on Charles Taylor’s earlier work on recognition and identity. Though Taylor’s references to identity are mostly to collective identity, Appiah’s aim is to draw a comparison or even find a connection between individual identity and collective identity. Identity A collective identity, explains Appiah

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