Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
קוואמה אנטורי אפיה: האם דת טובה או רעה? (זו שאלה מתחכמת)
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist. His latest book is "The Honor Code," exploring moral revolutions. Full bio
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is referred to as America's rabbi,
שמתייחסים אליו כרבי של אמריקה,
that negative characterization,
ללמוד את זה בעל פה --
באלים או בישויות רוחניות.
of anthropology at Oxford,
לאנטרופולוגיה באוקספורד,
is what he called animism,
הוא מה שהוא קורא לו אנימיזם,
how can you not believe in God?"
איך אתה לא מאמין באלוהים?"
so great about being Jewish.
שכל כך נפלא בלהיות יהודי.
God in order to be religious,
באלוהים כדי להיות דתיים,
I don't believe in the gods."
of the world's leading atheists.
אחד האתאיסטים המובילים בעולם.
"ובכן, האם זה כמו אחת מאלו?"
how we think about religion,
איך אנחנו חושבים על דת,
didn't have Christianity,
the following question:
most understandings of Christianity,
specific history of Christianity,
internal history of Christianity,
ההסטוריה הפנימית של הנצרות,
שהורגים אחד את השני
הוא היה יכול לכתוב את ספריו
increasingly could talk about it.
לדבר יותר על זה.
about how old the Earth is.
labor occurs as I say, I think,
מתרחדת כמו שאני אומר, אני חושב,
person who actually did this.
government anthropologist,
האנטרופולוג הבריטי הממשלתי,
had a drink, more or less,
he opened a bottle of whiskey,
שהוא פתח בקבוק וויסקי.
pour off just a little on the ground,
המייסד של השושלת שלנו,
huge public ceremonials.
this village came up to her,
were isolated from our world,
next time somebody wants
בפעם הבאה שמישהו רוצה
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kwame Anthony Appiah - PhilosopherKwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist. His latest book is "The Honor Code," exploring moral revolutions.
Why you should listen
Kwame Anthony Appiah works on political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. In his 2010 book The Honor Code, he explores a hidden engine of reform: appeals to honor. Examining moral revolutions in the past—and campaigns against abhorrent practices today—he shows that appeals to reason, morality, or religion aren’t enough to ring in reform.
He's the author of Lines of Descent, a thoughtful look at the career of sociologist W.E.B. DuBois, and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which studied "the powerful ties that connect people across religions, culture and nations … and of the deep conflicts within them." In 2008, Appiah published Experiments in Ethics, in which he reviews the relevance of empirical research to ethical theory. Appiah has also published several novels, including Avenging Angel, Nobody Likes Letitia and Another Death in Venice.
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