Links tagged with “kwameanthonyappiah”
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Religious Faith and John Rawls by Kwame Anthony Appiah | The New York Review of Books
Tracing John Rawls’ changing ideas from “the eternal claims of Christianity,” through ‘A Theory of Justice’s “appealing to the universal truths of reason,” to deriving ideals from the “shared consensus of democratic citizens.” (Subscribers only.)
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The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
Ethics, identity, violence, justice. “Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?”