Packet 3: Tossup 16

A book by a philosopher with this first name draws from a Richard Burton poem in likening a broken mirror’s shards to different cultures’ truths. This is the first name of a Kant-inspired thinker whose conception of personhood rejects a countryman’s communitarianism (15[2]-5[1])for distinguishing between humans and persons. (15[1])A thinker with this first name sought to help his compatriots understand Euro-Christian and Islamic principles with his ideology of (*) Consciencism. (10[4]-5[1])A concept (10[1])defined (10[4])as “universality plus difference” titles a book (10[1])subtitled “Ethics in a World of (10[1])Strangers” by an NYU professor (10[1])with this (10[1])first name, (10[1])who advocated for being a (10[1])citizen (10[1])of the world (10[1])in (10[1])that (10[1])book, (10[2])Cosmopolitanism. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, (10[2])give this first name (10[1])of a philosopher surnamed Appiah (10[1])and Ghana’s (10[3])first (10[1])president, (10[3])surnamed (10[1])Nkrumah. ■END■ (10[2])

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