Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Din iyi midir kötü mü? (Hileli bir soru)
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,
Haham David Wolpe ile beraberdim,
that negative characterization,
bir denge yaratmak için, dedi ki,
meydana getirilemez.
bin yıldan beri de diyebiliriz -
iddialarda bulunabileceğiniz
ve sonra, herhangi bir şeyin
of anthropology at Oxford,
is what he called animism,
dediği şey olduğunu söyler.
how can you not believe in God?"
Tanrı'ya nasıl inanmazsın?"
so great about being Jewish.
güzelliği de burada.
God in order to be religious,
inanmak zorunda isen,
I don't believe in the gods."
of the world's leading atheists.
biri olduğu hakkında sık sık şaka yapar.
Budizmi yansıtan bir şeyler
fikir olduğunu düşünüyorum
olduğunu düşünme nedenim ise
"Bu da onlardan biri gibi mi?"
how we think about religion,
sadece böyle düşünmüyoruz.
didn't have Christianity,
the following question:
son derece özel bir gelenektir.
most understandings of Christianity,
specific history of Christianity,
inanmadığınız konusunda
internal history of Christianity,
Hristiyan varsayımların
increasingly could talk about it.
jeologlar da gittikçe artıyordu.
bir iddiada bulunduysanız,
about how old the Earth is.
jeoloji ders kitabı yazabilirdiniz.
labor occurs as I say, I think,
geleneğimizin derin gerçekleriyle
Asante'ye geldiğini düşünün.
person who actually did this.
bunu yapan bir insan vardı.
government anthropologist,
antropolog olarak gönderildi
Kral'ın ruhunu yıkamak.
had a drink, more or less,
he opened a bottle of whiskey,
Her viski şişesi açtığında,
pour off just a little on the ground,
çok azını yere dökerdi
huge public ceremonials.
200 nüfuslu bir köyde
this village came up to her,
dizisinde görmüştüm.' dedi."
were isolated from our world,
soyutlanmış insanlar değildi,
için de dua ediyorlardı
laf olsun diye de söylemediler.
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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