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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

born 1954

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Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠about the good life. One cannot riddle one's way into it, and if the term 'ethics' conjures a hectoring moralism, a focus on misdeeds, a list of italicized demerits, then something has indeed been lost.

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Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with everyday existence-with the life that you sought to live, with wellness, not illness.

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Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with questions regarding human flourishing, about what it means for a life to be well lived -morality is about how we treat other people.

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Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not about conundrums or about finding solutions to conundrums. Kindness, friendship, and simply being nice are not about problems needing to be resolved, but are questions of existence-questions about what kind of people we are and wish to be.

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Ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not just what we should do for others (morality) but concerns making a life for ourselves (which naturally involves morality).

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Extrinsic racism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the belief that races are biological realities and that some races are more intelligent, more honest, more courageous, more industrious, than others.

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Imperialism of identity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

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Morality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our recognition that each other person is engaged in their own ethical project of making a life that reveals to us our obligations to them.

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Morality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠today, focused on illness rather than wellness, and as such is reduced to something like a clinical intervention, to a kind of a moral dispensary for the afflicted.

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Otherness-machines (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

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Quandary ethics (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the wrongheaded idea that kindness, friendship, and simply being nice are solutions to conundrums. In fact they are questions of existence-questions about what kind of people we are and wish to be.

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Race (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not physical or biological but social. It is dangerous because somatic markers are taken as other kinds of difference which precede and justify prejudice.

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Racial prejudice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a deformation of rationality in individuals whose racism is not 'only' grounded in certain wrongheaded (and thus correctable) propositions about race.

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Racialism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the philosophical position that races exist and collective difference existed between such categories. As a doctrine, it is not in itself dangerous, even if the racial essence is thought to entail moral and intellectual dispositions. Provided positive moral qualities are distributed across the races, each can be respected, can have its 'separate but equal' place.

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Same-sex marriage (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a matter of dignity just as all marriage is a matter of dignity, and just as all marriage is constitutionally protected as a matter of dignity.