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name of a single principle. In this sense, his intellectual lineage goes back to Benjamin Constant rather than to Mill. Constant, horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and the Jacobin Terror, warned against the dangers of despotism.
The correlation between the ethical and political domains has been the object of much debate. I do not propose to engage in it. What is of importance today is that in the political sphere, critics of the universalist liberalism of the kind articulated by Brian Barry in Culture and Equality, have been largely influenced by Berlin. Thinkers such as Stuart Hampshire, John Gray and Bhiku Parekh are characterized as “liberal value theorists”. They uphold the spirit of Berlin's value pluralism. At the same time, some of these critics, Parekh in particular, draw their sources from a discourse that originated in Canada and Australia. The circumstances that gave rise to the debate now known as "multiculturalism" were largely empirical. The question of minority rights, particularly those of aboriginal peoples became a serious political problem in Australia and Canada in the 1970s. Charles Taylor's The Politics of Recognition (1992) is the first serious attempt to give a philosophical perspective to a matter that until then was largely deemed to be a matter of constitutional decisions. I shall briefly discuss Taylor's analysis before taking up the more recent debate on pluralism.
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 26 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 23 name of a single principle. In this sense, his intellectual lineage goes back to Benjamin Constant rather than to Mill. Constant, horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and the Jacobin Terror, warned against the dangers of despotism. The correlation between the ethical and political domains has been the object of much debate. I do not propose to engage in it. What is of importance today is that in the political sphere, critics of the universalist liberalism of the kind articulated by Brian Barry in Culture and Equality, have been largely influenced by Berlin. Thinkers such as Stuart Hampshire, John Gray and Bhiku Parekh are characterized as “liberal value theorists”. They uphold the spirit of Berlin's value pluralism. At the same time, some of these critics, Parekh in particular, draw their sources from a discourse that originated in Canada and Australia. The circumstances that gave rise to the debate now known as "multiculturalism" were largely empirical. The question of minority rights, particularly those of aboriginal peoples became a serious political problem in Australia and Canada in the 1970s. Charles Taylor's The Politics of Recognition (1992) is the first serious attempt to give a philosophical perspective to a matter that until then was largely deemed to be a matter of constitutional decisions. I shall briefly discuss Taylor's analysis before taking up the more recent debate on pluralism. |
