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WHO AM I? WHO ARE WE? The Ethics and Politics of Identity
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Thursday, 24 October 2024
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Conference of Kwame Anthony Appiah
In politics, identities play an especially important role in our dealings with strangers. A national identification, a sense of fraternity with tens or hundreds of millions of our fellow citizens, can motivate us to give of ourselves; in the extreme, it can lead someone to think, as Horace put it, that it is sweet and fitting to die for your country. People die for their faiths, too, because the flourishing of their faith, like the successes of their children, is important enough to their sense of who they are.
Though identities play many positive roles in our ethical lives, they also, of course, have pathologies: identities can close us off from people whose identities we do not share, turning nationalism into xenophobia. Over-identification with one label can close you off to solidarity with people with whom you share other labels: conservatives can refuse conversation with Lutherans, or with Catholics, or with fellow citizens, whose politics they do not share. So, while we must recognize that identities play a crucial role in our moral and social lives, we need to manage them carefully if their many benefits are not to be swamped by their potential costs.
In this lecture, then, Kwame Anthony Appiah will sketch a picture of what identities are and how they shape the ways we act and think and feel. And I will suggest some ethical ideas about how to manage them.
In politics, identities play an especially important role in our dealings with strangers. A national identification, a sense of fraternity with tens or hundreds of millions of our fellow citizens, can motivate us to give of ourselves; in the extreme, it can lead someone to think, as Horace put it, that it is sweet and fitting to die for your country. People die for their faiths, too, because the flourishing of their faith, like the successes of their children, is important enough to their sense of who they are.
Though identities play many positive roles in our ethical lives, they also, of course, have pathologies: identities can close us off from people whose identities we do not share, turning nationalism into xenophobia. Over-identification with one label can close you off to solidarity with people with whom you share other labels: conservatives can refuse conversation with Lutherans, or with Catholics, or with fellow citizens, whose politics they do not share. So, while we must recognize that identities play a crucial role in our moral and social lives, we need to manage them carefully if their many benefits are not to be swamped by their potential costs.
In this lecture, then, Kwame Anthony Appiah will sketch a picture of what identities are and how they shape the ways we act and think and feel. And I will suggest some ethical ideas about how to manage them.
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Qui suis-je? qui sommes-nous? Éthique et politique de l’identité
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Qui suis-je? qui sommes-nous? Éthique et politique de l’identité
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