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Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Interview vor 7 Jahren

What gives each of us our sense of who we are?

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What gives each of us our sense of who we are? At the most
personal level we all have our own family background. In the most
general sense we are, all of us, part of the human species. But
it’s the stuff in between that puts us in groups or tribes and
often motivates our behaviour. Gender, religion, ethnicity,
nationality- these are the persistent fault lines that seem to
separate us from them. Stephen Sackur speaks to Kwame Antony
Appiah, an academic and public intellectual who says we need to
rethink identity to escape the myths of the past. But how?

Image: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Credit: Getty Images)