Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

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W. W. Norton & Company, Mar 1, 2010 - Philosophy - 224 pages

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell

Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
 

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CHAPTER
13
CHAPTER 3
33
CHAPTER 5
69
CHAPTER 6
87
CHAPTER 7
101
CHAPTER 8
115
CHAPTER 9
137
CHAPTER 10
155
Acknowledgments
175
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Kwame Anthony Appiah pens the Ethicist column for the New York Times, and is the author of the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism, among many other works. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah lives in New York.

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