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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (March 1, 2010)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
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Reading through Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism, I was pretty fascinated by the fact that references to its underlying concept date back to the fourth century BC, which interestingly, was a time where this term’s very meaning could not have been understood in the manner as we possibly can grasp it today.Interestingly, I had watched a TED talk by Appiah not too long back in which he had drawn a comparison between the Asante community and the Western world to note that in case of the former, there were a set of assumptions dictated by religion, which any explanation of either the physical or the spiritual had to satisfy before possibly gaining widespread acceptance. In this regard, Appiah’s example of the virus being the basis of some of the diseases and the parallel explanation for that through witchcraft as understood in his Asante community, was pretty insightful.In chapter 7, Appiah speaks approvingly of the exchange (or contamination) that comes about as a result of globalization. While the benefits he attributes to this process are significant, he fails to properly identify the associated harms. An example of such a harm can be drawn from Equiano’s description of how slave traders who brought European goods to exchange for slaves, essentially incited the natives to indulge in slave trade and consequently, disrupted the previously established economic equilibrium of the native community.While I enjoyed reading Cosmopolitanism, I couldn’t help but sense its utopian nature, which we can attempt to approximate but are not very likely to attain.
One of the most pernicious ideas has spung from the myth that we are necessarily separated and segregated into groups that are defined by criteria like gender, language, race, religion or some other kind of boundary. And it is easy to see that these boundaries are a major cause of conflict.The author of this enthralling book - Kwame Anthony Appiah - challenges this kind of separative thinking by resurrecting the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism." This school of thought that dates back almost 2500 years to the Cynics of Ancient Greece. They first articulated the cosmopolitan ideal that all human beings were citizens of the world. Later on, these ideas were elaborated by another group of philosophers: the Stoics.According to Appiah, the influence of cosmopolitanism has stretched down the ages and through to the Enlightenment. He takes Immanuel Kant's notion of a League of Nations and the Declaration of the Rights of Man to be two manifestations of this ancient idea.Appiah sees cosmopolitanism as a dynamic concept based on two fundamental ideas. First is the idea that we have responsibilities to others that are beyond those based on kinship or citizenship. Second is something often forgotten: just because other people have different customs and beliefs from ours, they will likely still have meaning and value. We may not agree with someone else, but mutual understanding should be a first goal.The book is full of personal experiences. I doubt that anyone else could have written it: His mother was an English author and daughter of the statesman Sir Stafford Cripps, and his father a Ghanaian barrister and politician, who reminded his children to remember that they were "citizens of the world."Appiah was educated in Ghana and England and has taught in both countries. He now holds a chair of Philosophy at Princeton. He is no starry eyed idealist, and he knows that differences between groups and nations cannot be wished away or ignored. But he contends, rightly, I think, that differences can be accepted without being allowed to become barriers.As he says, "Cosmopolitans suppose that all cultures have enough overlap in their vocabulary of values to begin a conversation. But they don't suppose, like some Universalists, that we could all come to agreement if only we had the same vocabulary." The reason is simply this: most of us arrive at our values not on the basis of careful reasoning, but by lifelong conditioning and subjective beliefs and attitudes.In parts of Europe, there have recently been misgivings about the growing diversity and multiculturalism of countries like the United Kingdom, with people asking whether it is doing no more than fracturing society. Appiah tackles this question head on. He has this to say, "If we want to preserve a wide range of human conditions because it allows free people the best chance to make their own lives, there is no place for the enforcement of diversity by trapping people within a kind of difference that they long to escape. There simply is no decent way to sustain those communities of difference that will not survive without the free allegiance of their members."Cosmopolitanism, balances our "obligations to others" with the "value not just of human life but of particular human lives," what Appiah calls "universality plus difference." He remains skeptical about simple maxims for ethical behavior such as the Golden Rule. He swiftly demonstrates its failings as a moral precept. He argues that cosmopolitanism is the name not "of the solution but of the challenge."This is an important book that will inevitably be controversial. In a world that is becoming more interconnected and shrinking by the day, and where the "clash of cultures" threatens our existence, Appiah has many new perspectives as he articulates a precise yet flexible ethical manifesto. He does not claim to have all the answers, but this book should be of interest to all of us as we try to make sense of the turmoil, challenges and opportunities of our globalizing world.
The author explicates how the norms of traditions mantain in the flowing of the times the old order. He cites names as Adam Smith, Balzac, Kant, Hegel, for showing as the models of the life, descript by those philosophies, are often more truthful than other choices. Therefore also the representation of the questions related to the African countries remain sufficiently little clear in this "scenario".
The author is a terrific writer. His style is very approachable. This isn't ivory-tower, academic journal style writing. It's something that just about anyone could pick up and learn from. It's a quick read that you won't feel that you've had to slog through.In some respects, what I like most about this book aren't the author's specific ideas on cosmopolitanism, but something else. What I like most is learning how the author himself came to cosmopolitanism. Seeing how he came to be cosmopolitan helped teach me how I could make some progress towards that goal.Don't think that you're going to come away from this book with a thorough understanding of cosmopolitanism. This is just one, good piece of the puzzle. You're going to have to fill in some of the gaps with Kant, Nussbaum, Held, Rawls, an others.However, this is a terrific book that accomplishes its task. It's good enough that I've bought and gifted copies for friends. That's about the highest recommendation that I can give.
I got this book a while ago and still go back to reread the book. It's about cultures and its influences on a human nature. Since the author carries more than one culture within himself, he provides great examples of what it is like to see the world through many unlike perspectives that have been formed under different cultures.Thought provoking. Definitely recommend.
Philosophy is hard. Approach starts with a conversational tone and many interesting stories about his family and his native Ghana. Perhaps it's easier for him to see how we should take on our responsibilities for the other people in the world because he's had to adapt to so many changes in cultures.. He discusses intellectual and artistic properties and where they rightly belong, but doesn't in any way talk about social media and how it is drawing the world closer together. I think he's interesting, but still very hard to understand.
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