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There was one question I really wanted to ask the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah when I spoke to him over the phone last weekend: how do you convince the rest of us that what you do really matters...
Most arguments in life, Appiah says, “have hidden assumptions, hidden premises.” It is these premises and assumptions that philosophers examine and reexamine, in search of new truths. “Things get discovered if you go carefully over the tracks,” Appiah says...
...Appiah weaves extensive quotations and citations of philosophers from Socrates to Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel (to whom he respectfully refers, on first reference, as simply “Sandel”) into his very readable and occasionally colloquial prose—dotted with words that go untransliterated and untranslated...
...intellectual worth of cultural productivity is worth studying,” Appiah said, “and it’s worth studying in itself, not because of what it does for our mind or even that it teaches us about reality, but because interacting with works of great achievement is valuable...
...Ethics of Identity, Appiah does even more than celebrate the achievements of the liberal intellectual tradition. He adds one more...