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multiculturalism and the politics of recognition, and is associated with the claim for group rights in the context of diversity. Pluralism in this sense is understood to refer to cultural pluralism. At the other end, it is associated with value pluralism in ethical theory where ultimate values held by persons are said to be often not merely incompatible, but incommensurable. These two different strands of thought converge in the contemporary debate on pluralism in intricate ways.
Value pluralism is a concept that arose in the mid twentieth century. The most famous proponent of this view is Isaiah Berlin. In the landmark essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty" which he delivered as his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in Oxford in 1958, Berlin affirms:
Pluralism, with the measure of negative liberty that it entails, seems to me a truer and more humane ideal than the goals of those who seek in the great disciplined, authoritarian structures the ideal of 'positive' self-mastery by classes, or peoples, or the whole of mankind. It is truer, because it does, at least, recognize the fact that human goals are many, not all of them commensurable, and in perpetual rivalry with one other. (Berlin, 216)
Although value pluralism has become an important issue in ethical theory today, it must not be forgotten that Berlin was writing in a political context. He was writing partly in response to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union. (Berlin, 166) His opposition was to monism, where all values and goals are reducible to a single principle. Value pluralism was a philosophical bulwark against the horrors that had been committed in the
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 25 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 22 multiculturalism and the politics of recognition, and is associated with the claim for group rights in the context of diversity. Pluralism in this sense is understood to refer to cultural pluralism. At the other end, it is associated with value pluralism in ethical theory where ultimate values held by persons are said to be often not merely incompatible, but incommensurable. These two different strands of thought converge in the contemporary debate on pluralism in intricate ways. Value pluralism is a concept that arose in the mid twentieth century. The most famous proponent of this view is Isaiah Berlin. In the landmark essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty" which he delivered as his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in Oxford in 1958, Berlin affirms: Pluralism, with the measure of negative liberty that it entails, seems to me a truer and more humane ideal than the goals of those who seek in the great disciplined, authoritarian structures the ideal of 'positive' self-mastery by classes, or peoples, or the whole of mankind. It is truer, because it does, at least, recognize the fact that human goals are many, not all of them commensurable, and in perpetual rivalry with one other. (Berlin, 216) Although value pluralism has become an important issue in ethical theory today, it must not be forgotten that Berlin was writing in a political context. He was writing partly in response to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union. (Berlin, 166) His opposition was to monism, where all values and goals are reducible to a single principle. Value pluralism was a philosophical bulwark against the horrors that had been committed in the |
