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Anthony Appiah Quotes

b. 1954

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Music( born 8 May 1954) is a Ghanaian-English-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014,and has been a Silver Professor since 2025.He was previously the Laurance S.

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All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings.

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.

Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Appiah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.