Juan S. Fernandez Instructor: Dr. Thomas L. Norris "The Case for contamination" Kwame Anthony Appiah The role of religion Kwame Anthony Appiah‚ author of "The case for contamination" focuses on three main interrelated issues throw out his essay. Globalization‚ cultural diversity‚ and ethical consideration. Religion plays two major roles within this issues‚ claims made by people in favor of globalization and those against it. Religion can be used positively to protect culture in the idea of globalization
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Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Thinking It Through Thinking It Through AN I NTRODUCTION TO CONTE M PO RARY PH I LOSOPHY Kwame Anthony Appiah Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright © 2003 by Oxford University
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Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism is an intriguing book whose drive is to invite readers to take a step back from “the noise” of the world and view it in a light that encompasses the similarities and differences of the people that live in it. Through this view‚ we come to understand that with the bit of help from the globalization phenomenon‚ the world is made up of communities within communities‚ within communities‚ within a community. Appiah states that‚ cosmopolitanism “begins with the simple
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Critical Summary Regan argues that there is a difference between moral disagreements and personal preference disagreements. He believes that disagreements in preferences do exist between people. Someone likes or prefers something and another person may not like it or may be preferring something else. Judging morality as in what is morally right and wrong is different from when judging personal preferences. A person does not need justification to what his/her personal preferences are‚ because there
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Lucas Veltrie 8/5/11 Academic Writing Appiah summery Moral Disagreement by Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about how in every culture we all have our own values and a certain sense of what is right and wrong. We have our own judgments in which we disagree on with our peers. These conflicts come in many different forms our vocabulary‚ how we use sarcasm as a way of rudeness‚ and the way we perceive the “thin” and “thick” concepts that we as humans create. He also begins to talk about
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A True Cosmopolitan Appiah poses a question: What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity? Appiah’s answers this with his personal story‚ history‚ literature‚ and philosophy. Pre-historic hunter-gatherers encountered fewer people in a lifetime than we would on a single day walking down the streets of Delhi‚ or New Orleans. Centuries ago‚ people lived in a world where they were isolated‚ and unable to communicate between different countries. Today we live in a world where most of
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Contamination‚ written by Princeton University philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah‚ an argument is made in favor of increased interaction and integration of cultures worldwide. Appiah has roots in both Ghana and Great Britain‚ and while he understands the opposition towards globalization‚ he emphasizes how the sharing of culture and spread of industrial benefits does not have to be seen as a threat to smaller communities with traditional backgrounds. Appiah writes‚ “Yes‚ globalization can produce homogeneity
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Kwame Anthony Appiah in his essay titled “The Case for Contamination” talks about three interrelated issues‚ globalization‚ cultural diversity‚ and ethical consideration. Within all this‚ there are two roles religion plays. The roles that those in favor of globalization claim and the roles against globalization claim. Religion is a double-edged sword when it comes to the role it plays in the issues at hand. On one side of the coin religion can be used positively in globalization to protect
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After reading the article “The Case for Contamination” by Kwame Anthony Appiah I realized that theres a lot going on out there in all these different countries. His major focus was on how all these different religious views play a major role in these cultures. He also goes more in depth on two major groups “The Cosmopolitans and The Universalist”‚ and even gives us his point of view on what he agrees on. Religion played an important role in each of the communities he spoke about. The one that
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authentically African quality. Its an ironic fact that the traditional clothing is modeled after dutch cleric clothing and the missionary fashion of the 1700s - an extension of one of the many arms of colonialism itself. So how do these things coincide? Appiah tries to dawn an understanding of the complexity on the reader by illustrating the stark polarity in our divided efforts. Some want to "progress" at any cost and other’s want to preserve at any cost and all those found in the middle are the infinity
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