Round 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 for distinguishing between humans and persons. A thinker with this first name sought to help his compatriots understand Euro-Christian and Islamic principles with his ideology of (*) Consciencism. A concept defined as “universality plus difference” titles a book subtitled “Ethics in a World of Strangers” by an NYU professor with this first name, who advocated for being a citizen of the world in that book, Cosmopolitanism. For 10 points, give this first name of a philosopher surnamed Appiah and Ghana’s first president, surnamed Nkrumah. ■END■
ANSWER: Kwame [accept Kwame Nkrumah; accept Kwame Anthony Appiah; accept Kwame Gyekye; prompt on Anthony by asking “what first name was that philosopher born with?”]
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