Daily Archives: October 9th, 2008

Reformatting Dualism.

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I don’t care for the promise of a final agreement in a conversation. And so the first words of my response to Appiah’s final sentence of the third chapter in Cosmopolitanism are thrown down. Utter hokum I say. Positivist or what have you; I regularly involve the people around me in conversation solely based on [...]

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Cosmopolitanism: Imperfect Examples of Ideals.

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The introduction to “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” defines two key threads of discourse to identify what I will label the “Cosmopolitanism-ness” of an object. The author then begins the book proper with a set of biographical allegories focusing primarily on the object Sir Richard Francis Burton. The first chapter ends with a [...]

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