Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
Кваме Ентоні Аппіа: Релігія - це добре чи погано? (Це питання неоднозначне)
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,
that negative characterization,
негативну характеристику,
могла навіяти релігія".
свою дочку Іфігенію
of anthropology at Oxford,
в Оксфорді,
is what he called animism,
how can you not believe in God?"
ви ж рабин?"
so great about being Jewish.
(Сміх)
God in order to be religious,
вірити в Бога,
цьому переконанню.
він підійшов до дідуся,
I don't believe in the gods."
of the world's leading atheists.
він головний атеїст світу.
що я запропонував
how we think about religion,
didn't have Christianity,
the following question:
most understandings of Christianity,
specific history of Christianity,
історії християнства,
internal history of Christianity,
історія християнства, -
вбивали одне одного,
інші релігійні погляди.
інтелектуальне життя
все, про що ви думати,
у першій книзі Тори.
increasingly could talk about it.
отримали свободу слова.
неправдивість своїх думок
about how old the Earth is.
labor occurs as I say, I think,
person who actually did this.
це помітив.
government anthropologist,
написав книжку про релігію ашанті.
достатньо часу для цього.
Омивати душу короля.
had a drink, more or less,
he opened a bottle of whiskey,
pour off just a little on the ground,
huge public ceremonials.
у чорний колір
this village came up to her,
were isolated from our world,
від нашого світу,
є з нами,
та Світовому банку.
нашого з вами світу,
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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