Kwame Anthony Appiah: belief

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…What do you think is the next undervalued moral revolution on its way, say within the next decade? I should have a standard answer to that, but I don’t. I think that we’re seeing . . . There’s a long tradition in Muslim moral thought of making each of us, at least each Muslim, responsible for the moral lives of other Muslims in a certain way. It refers to a passage in the Koran about commanding right and forbidding wrong. This society was, when I came here 30-something years ago, very much a society in which people thought that you left other people to do their own moral thing. Now there’s an interesting change going on, that people feel inclined to intervene in the moral lives even of strangers and to say what they think about it. Maybe not to coerce them, of course, into doing anything in particular, but at least to express a view. If that takes hold, it will be a huge revolution in the moral life of our society. And what in our behavior will change the most, say within 10, 15 years?…

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