Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Czy religia jest dobra czy zła? (To podchwytliwe pytanie)
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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"Religia zatruwa wszystko".
is referred to as America's rabbi,
nazywany rabinem Ameryki,
that negative characterization,
tę negatywną charakterystykę,
pióra Lukrecjusza,
który powiedział:
czy coś jej odpowiada.
definicja religii to taka,
lub życie duchowe.
of anthropology at Oxford,
profesorem antropologii na Oksfordzie,
nowoczesnych antropologów.
o prymitywnej kulturze twierdzi,
is what he called animism,
co nazwał animizmem,
Paula Beatty'ego o tytule "Tuff".
how can you not believe in God?"
jak możesz nie wierzyć w Boga?".
so great about being Jewish.
"To jest wspaniałe w byciu Żydem.
God in order to be religious,
żeby być religijnym,
przeciwko temu poglądowi.
I don't believe in the gods."
z wiodących ateistów świata.
of the world's leading atheists.
jako formy religijności.
wyobrażenie o religii zakłada,
"Czy przypomina którąś z tych?".
how we think about religion,
to europejscy podróżnicy,
didn't have Christianity,
the following question:
zamiast chrześcijaństwa.
most understandings of Christianity,
dla zrozumienia chrześcijaństwa,
specific history of Christianity,
internal history of Christianity,
o zabijaniu ludzi za to,
we właściwe rzeczy,
autorytetów intelektualnych,
związkiem między tym, co mówił,
increasingly could talk about it.
about how old the Earth is.
labor occurs as I say, I think,
podział intelektualny pracy.
robić różne poważne rzeczy
mojego rodzinnego kraju,
w którym dorastałem, Asante,
person who actually did this.
government anthropologist,
rządu brytyjskiego.
skończyły w Muzeum Brytyjskim,
had a drink, more or less,
he opened a bottle of whiskey,
gdy otwierał whisky,
pour off just a little on the ground,
i wylewał trochę na ziemię
założyciela naszego rodu,
huge public ceremonials.
od granicy z Angolą
this village came up to her,
were isolated from our world,
odizolowani od naszego świata,
za bezpieczeństwo podróży,
i w Banku Światowym.
next time somebody wants
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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