{"id":65808,"date":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/author-philosopher-kwane-anthony-appiah-to-visit-uri\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T00:00:00","slug":"author-philosopher-kwane-anthony-appiah-to-visit-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/author-philosopher-kwane-anthony-appiah-to-visit-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Author, philosopher Kwane Anthony Appiah to visit 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013September 19, 2007\u2014Members of the public as well as students enrolled in a sociology class taught by Professor Calvin B. Peters will be treated to the thoughts and considerations of a widely-respected philosopher and author next month.<\/p>\n


\n\tKwane Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will visit the 溏心vlog免费B站 for two days next month. His visit includes a public presentation Oct. 18 at 5 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road., Kingston. The talk is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n


\n\tAppiah\u2019s latest book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers–winner of the 2007 Arthur Ross Award of the Council on Foreign Relations– is required reading for Peters\u2019 course this fall. Appiah will speak to the SOC 100 class on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI chose this book because it addresses important issues for our times,\u201d says Peters. \u201cThe course is oriented around three questions: how we narrate our own lives, how we narrate the lives of others, and how we narrate our life together. Appiah’s book helps us think about the second two questions in particular. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhat I hope students get from reading this is an appreciation of difference \u2013 that we aren’t all the same “deep down” \u2013 and a sense of how different a “life worth living” looks depending on one’s circumstances,\u201d said the sociology professor. \u201cAt the same time, I also hope they are willing to engage with difference, rather than merely “celebrate” it or tolerate it in the weak sense that others can do “whatever” (they want to do).\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAppiah, a respected educator and philosopher\u2013he has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, in France, Germany, Ghana, and South Africa\u2014has authored many books, including publishing widely in African and African-American literary and cultural studies. His major current work has to do with 1) the philosophical foundations of liberalism and 2) with questions of method in arriving at knowledge about values.<\/p>\n


\n\t In Cosmopolitanism, Appiah tackles some of the central ethical questions of our time. How is it possible to consider the world a moral community when there is so much disagreement about the nature of morality? How can you take responsibility for every other life on the planet and still live your own life? His answers and solutions\u2014grounded in a new ethics of cosmopolitanism, celebrates our common humanity, while at the same time offering a practical way to manage our differences. He helps readers develop a new approach to living a moral life in the modern age\u2014where the competing claims of “a clash of civilizations” and a groundless moral relativism makes such a project seem impossible. <\/p>\n


\n\tSponsors for Appiah\u2019s visit include Friends of Sociology 100, the 溏心vlog免费B站 John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service; the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities; the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences; the Office of the Provost; the College of Human Science and Services; and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Visiting Scholars Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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