I enjoy Appiah's NYT ethics column. I appreciate his cool yet compassionate responses to readers' sticky questions of right and wrong. And I also enjoyed this, a discussion of five hooks on which many humans hang their own sense of who they are: creed, country, color, class, and culture. Appiah's own heritage as descendant of Ghanaian royalty is frequently explored as a way of illustrating his ideas to great effect. The contents and point of view in this volume, written by a philosopher and world citizen, are not surprising, but its eloquence and evenhandedness make it a very worthwhile read.
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