Q0627
“The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality…” — Kwame Anthony Appiah (Cosmopolitanism)
Verified English quotation. Primary source: Cosmopolitanism. Theme: ethics.
English
The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference.
Source and attribution
The archive attributes this English wording to Cosmopolitanism and files it under Africana Philosophy. That locator distinguishes the passage from loose internet attributions: readers can return to the named work or section to check translation, surrounding argument, and edition-specific wording.
About Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah (b. 1954) is a British-Ghanaian philosopher who has taught at Princeton, NYU, and elsewhere.
How to read this passage
Across 4 recurring voices here (notably Kwame Anthony Appiah and Simone de Beauvoir), ethics is framed through Africana Philosophy and Existentialism. Some passages define ethics; others warn how it fails; still others relocate it inside habit, community, or language. This passage enters that discussion through ethics, otherness, justice.
Concepts in this quote
- Ethics
- Ethics appears in this archive as a live philosophical concern—not a slogan. These verified English passages show how thinkers treat ethics as a problem of judgment, practice, or explanation.
- Otherness
- Otherness appears in this archive as a live philosophical concern—not a slogan. These verified English passages show how thinkers treat otherness as a problem of judgment, practice, or explanation.
- Justice
- Justice concerns fairness, rights, desert, and the arrangement of institutions that claim to treat people as equals.
How to cite this quotation
APA: Kwame Anthony Appiah. (n.d.). The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0627
MLA: Kwame Anthony Appiah. “The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0627.
Chicago: Kwame Anthony Appiah. “The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0627.
Frequently asked questions
What is the source of the quotation “The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is…”?
The passage is attributed to Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism. The archive attributes this English wording to Cosmopolitanism and files it under Africana Philosophy. That locator distinguishes the passage from loose internet attributions: readers can return to the named work or section to check translation, surrounding argument, and edition-specific wording.
What does Kwame Anthony Appiah mean by ethics?
Across 4 recurring voices here (notably Kwame Anthony Appiah and Simone de Beauvoir), ethics is framed through Africana Philosophy and Existentialism. Some passages define ethics; others warn how it fails; still others relocate it inside habit, community, or language. This passage enters that discussion through ethics, otherness, justice.