A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one..

I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think that there are universal va….

Cosmopolitans begin, I think, with a sense of one thing we all certainly share, which is our fallibility. Nobody has reason to be confident that they….

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a c….

There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete s….

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing.

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another.

I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or, unfortunately….

The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions ….

The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, ….

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks f….

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues fa….

One of the central challenges for global conversation today is to find ways of getting to understand very different views about gender and sexuality.….

Unless you have the power to stop the government of Iran beheading teenagers for homosexual acts, there's not much to be done except deplore it unles….

If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things..

I've long had the idea that the factors that are most important in determining what we believe, how we live, and what we accomplish are matters of ac….

Plenty of people within the Moslem world are not engaged in a clash with te West and don't want to do so; and none of the terrorist acts was an attac….

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful excha….

When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life, I have learned that rea….

There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I….