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SUMMARY:Cosmopolitanism - Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah in conversation w
 ith Ash Amin - Kwame Anthony Appiah - CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor
  
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DESCRIPTION:“Cosmopolitanism” is an ancient idea – that we are – o
 r should aspire to be –citizens of the world and not merely beholden to 
 a local community. This originally Epicurean and then Christian ideal has 
 become one of the most pressing issues in modern ethics and political thou
 ght thanks to the brilliant work of Kwame Anthony Appiah\, whose book Cosm
 opolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers inaugurated a debate that has 
 also been taken forward by Martha Nussbaum and Danielle Allen. If globaliz
 ation has become the condition of modern society what are the implications
  for ethical action? Can we care for distant others as vividly as we do fo
 r our own immediate ties? How do the claims of a universal ethics stand ag
 ainst the recognition of cultural difference? What “habits of co-existen
 ce” are required to make the global world habitable? What narrative or m
 oral or affective obligations make sense in or across modern societies?
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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