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difference. With this perspective in mind, I would like to take up Walzer’s views on the subject. His approach to the question of pluralism is from the standpoint of peaceful coexistence. He is concerned with toleration as a practice and has various models within which coexistence can be achieved.
IV: Regimes of Toleration
In On Toleration, Walzer states that peaceful coexistence is a good in itself. At the outset, he makes it clear that he is concerned with toleration between groups. The need for toleration arises when differences at issue are cultural or religious, they concern conflicting ways of life. He is not concerned with toleration at the political level, where conflicts may arise due to ideological differences. He is concerned with toleration as a practice which corresponds to the virtue, tolerance. As an attitude or state of mind, toleration describes a number of possibilities. He lists five of them.
1. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the religious wars led to a call for toleration, with Locke’s Letter on Toleration representing the paradigm case: a resigned acceptance of difference for the sake of peace. Walzer also cites Voltaire on the subject.
2. Another possibility is a passive, relaxed, benignly indifferent attitude to difference. A live and let live approach to difference.
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 56 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 53 difference. With this perspective in mind, I would like to take up Walzer’s views on the subject. His approach to the question of pluralism is from the standpoint of peaceful coexistence. He is concerned with toleration as a practice and has various models within which coexistence can be achieved. IV: Regimes of Toleration In On Toleration, Walzer states that peaceful coexistence is a good in itself. At the outset, he makes it clear that he is concerned with toleration between groups. The need for toleration arises when differences at issue are cultural or religious, they concern conflicting ways of life. He is not concerned with toleration at the political level, where conflicts may arise due to ideological differences. He is concerned with toleration as a practice which corresponds to the virtue, tolerance. As an attitude or state of mind, toleration describes a number of possibilities. He lists five of them. 1. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the religious wars led to a call for toleration, with Locke’s Letter on Toleration representing the paradigm case: a resigned acceptance of difference for the sake of peace. Walzer also cites Voltaire on the subject. 2. Another possibility is a passive, relaxed, benignly indifferent attitude to difference. A live and let live approach to difference. |
