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The Ethics of Identity by Anthony Appiah is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ethics of Identity about?
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions. The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves. What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we
Who reads The Ethics of Identity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anthony Appiah
- Publisher
- PrincetonUP
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (184 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14