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the black communities although positive discrimination is not permitted in the U.K.
Against this backdrop, it is important to understand that ill-conceived and ill-implemented multicultural policies can actually vitiate matters. Endemic rioting in the inner cities culminated in riots in the summer of 2001, prior to 9/11/2001 and several years before Britain had its own 7/7, the suicide bomb attacks on the London transportation system in 2005. The government appointed two independent commissions. The focus in Chapter IV is mainly on the findings and the recommendations of these two commissions. Their recommendations focus on the idea of common citizenship, which has now become a mandatory topic in the school curriculum. This appeal to common citizenship while preserving diversity constitutes a necessary and sufficient condition for toleration.
The overall philosophical conclusion of my investigation is that toleration as a practice is both desirable and achievable as a goal. The argument supports my core thesis that insofar as we affirm our nature as beings engaged in productive activity, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. Insofar as we are interdependent in the economic sphere, we have a material basis to achieve that goal. Some philosophers might believe that it is more important to ground toleration as a virtue. The late Judith Shklar wrote that “[t]he question of what meaning and worth toleration has within a pluralistic and skeptical context is far from clear, but it might be helpful if one looked at the demands of
Object Description
| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 20 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 17 the black communities although positive discrimination is not permitted in the U.K. Against this backdrop, it is important to understand that ill-conceived and ill-implemented multicultural policies can actually vitiate matters. Endemic rioting in the inner cities culminated in riots in the summer of 2001, prior to 9/11/2001 and several years before Britain had its own 7/7, the suicide bomb attacks on the London transportation system in 2005. The government appointed two independent commissions. The focus in Chapter IV is mainly on the findings and the recommendations of these two commissions. Their recommendations focus on the idea of common citizenship, which has now become a mandatory topic in the school curriculum. This appeal to common citizenship while preserving diversity constitutes a necessary and sufficient condition for toleration. The overall philosophical conclusion of my investigation is that toleration as a practice is both desirable and achievable as a goal. The argument supports my core thesis that insofar as we affirm our nature as beings engaged in productive activity, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. Insofar as we are interdependent in the economic sphere, we have a material basis to achieve that goal. Some philosophers might believe that it is more important to ground toleration as a virtue. The late Judith Shklar wrote that “[t]he question of what meaning and worth toleration has within a pluralistic and skeptical context is far from clear, but it might be helpful if one looked at the demands of |
