Ethics of Identity.pdf

Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Appiah, Anthony.

The ethics of identity / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-691-12036-6 (alk. paper)

1. Ethics. 2. Group identity—Moral and ethical aspects.

3. Identity (Psychology)—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title.

BJ1031.A64 2005

170—dc22 2004044535

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

This book has been composed in Minion

Printed on acid-free paper.∞

pupress.princeton.edu

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

u For Henry Finder

“totum muneris hoc tui est . . .”

—HORACE, Odes 4.3

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter One The Ethics of Individuality

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT—LIBERTY AND INDIVIDUALITY—

PLANS OF LIFE—THE SOUL OF THE SERVITOR—SOCIAL

CHOICES—INVENTION AND AUTHENTICITY—THE SOCIAL

SCRIPTORIUM—ETHICS IN IDENTITY—INDIVIDUALITY AND

THE STATE—THE COMMON PURSUIT

Chapter Two Autonomy and Its Critics

WHAT AUTONOMY DEMANDS—AUTONOMY AS INTOLERANCE—

AUTONOMY AGONISTES—THE TWO STANDPOINTS—

AGENCY AND THE INTERESTS OF THEORY

Chapter Three The Demands of Identity

LEARNING HOW TO CURSE—THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL

IDENTITIES—MILLET MULTICULTURALISM—AUTONOMISM,

PLURALISM, NEUTRALISM—A FIRST AMENDMENT EXAMPLE:

THE ACCOMMODATIONIST PROGRAM—NEUTRALITY

RECONSIDERED—THE LANGUAGE OF RECOGNITION—THE

MEDUSA SYNDROME—LIMITS AND PARAMETERS

Chapter Four The Trouble with Culture

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MAKING UP THE DIFFERENCE—IS CULTURE A GOOD?—THE

PRESERVATIONIST ETHIC—NEGATION AS AFFIRMATION—

THE DIVERSITY PRINCIPLE

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