Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.
"Appiah is one of the most relevant philosophers today.... His work
reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist.. He helps us think
holistically before turning analytic... Fascinating, erudite, and
beautifully written."
*The New York Times Book Review*
"How stimulating it is to read the remarkable research of a
brilliant mind into the concept of honor as the origin of morality
as we know it, practiced or not!... This book is essential for
us—inescapable in its urgent relevance to the embattled human
morality we live within our codes of the present."
*Nadine Gordimer, author of Telling Times*
"Appiah lays out a concept that is not only compelling in its own
right but also suggests a connection that may in time help to
collate biological and cultural exploration of human morality."
*Edward O. Wilson, author of Sociobiology*
"A deeply insightful exposition of the dangers, the potential and
the (perhaps) ineradicable role of the human sense of honor."
*Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill
University*
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