Comments on: Kwame Anthony Appiah On Values, Sexuality And The Perfect Cosmopolitan http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charley http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40481 Charley Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:35:30 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40481 The nature of "cosmopolitanism" is self serving victorian arrogance. Not a new concept of "one world". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) It's a feel good philosophy based on Abrahamic religious values. We are basically what we are, descendants of one cell organisms, evolving from the primal ooze, striving for survival. Primates will be extinct in 2 million years. Self preservation is the truth, and it is everyone's own responsibility to survive, no one else's. The nature of “cosmopolitanism” is self serving victorian arrogance. Not a new concept of “one world”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) It’s a feel good philosophy based on Abrahamic religious values. We are basically what we are, descendants of one cell organisms, evolving from the primal ooze, striving for survival. Primates will be extinct in 2 million years. Self preservation is the truth, and it is everyone’s own responsibility to survive, no one else’s.

]]> By: jason http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40262 jason Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:38:21 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40262 congrats to queerty for such a thoughtful interview with an important philosopher! i can't wait for the second installment!!! congrats to queerty for such a thoughtful interview with an important philosopher! i can’t wait for the second installment!!!

]]> By: M Shane Walsh http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40256 M Shane Walsh Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:15:41 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/kwame-anthony-appiah-on-values-sexuality-and-the-perfect-cosmopolitan-20080209/#comment-40256 I'm generally find anything reminiscent of 'self help" psychology simple-minded and tedious. This, does approach the practical variables of a very unique and timely aspect of our experience as inhabitants of a diverse human world, and may offer some answers to the difficulties inherit in living in a diverse world.To be honest, I like it because I've mostly been a very curious and gregarious person and a hard core freak for diversity in my life. However, I foresee a a problem in his cognition about the aprehension what other people do or should comprehend about gay people, since it we challenge the normal heterosexual perspective of what human relationships should or can be. It is odd somehow that if heterosexual people are threatened by who we are and how we love, why are we not envious of them , or are some of us/ I find that I and some other people respond very differently to the prospect of new and different people differently than others. A long time ago, I decided that i wasn’t going to be afraid of anyone. I think that that is true Unless the people are offensive I enjoy a diversity in my encounters. I think that I have had more trouble personally relating to gay people because of the sexual aspect-I think , but that seems to be more in the midwest , although, for most of my life I think that the sexual aspect has become an agenda , even when I don’t want it to be. I’m generally find anything reminiscent of ‘self help” psychology simple-minded and tedious. This, does approach the practical variables of a very unique and timely aspect of our experience as inhabitants of a diverse human world, and may offer some

answers to the difficulties inherit in living in a diverse world.To be honest, I like it because I’ve mostly been a very curious and gregarious person and a hard core freak for diversity in my life.

However, I foresee a a problem in his cognition about the aprehension what other people do or should comprehend about gay people, since it we challenge the normal heterosexual perspective of what human relationships should or can be. It is odd somehow that if heterosexual people are threatened by who we are and how we love, why are we not envious of them , or are some of us/

I find that I and some other people respond very differently to the prospect of new and different people differently than others. A long time ago, I decided that i wasn’t going to be afraid of anyone. I think that that is true Unless the people are offensive I
enjoy a diversity in my encounters.

I think that I have had more trouble personally relating to gay people because of the sexual aspect-I think , but that seems to be more in the midwest , although, for most of my life I think that the sexual aspect has become an agenda , even when I don’t want it to be.

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