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its electronic character. Corporations can conduct business on the telephone, and through the Internet. At some point however, there has to be a physical movement of persons and goods. I have remarked in Chapter 3, p 76 above, that ships built in China find their way to scrap yards in Bangla Desh. These ships have to be physically re-located. The overseeing of such movement requires supervision. Since billions of dollars are at stake, senior executives must travel to ensure that the transactions run smoothly. Air travel still flourishes. This implies that the scale offered by the Internet is not commensurate with the needs of the market economy, by virtue of its locus.
It is quite otherwise with the Ethical Globalization Initiative. It is an umbrella organization that brings together various global coalitions, and in this sense literally constitutes the “public of publics.” Initiated by Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, and co-founded by the Aspen Institutive, Columbia University and the Geneva-based International Council on Human Rights, its declared aim is manifold as against the specialized aims of an organization such as Médécins Sans Frontières.
The function of an umbrella organization is to co-ordinate the actions of its various constituents. If co-ordination were all, then the conventional telephone would serve the purpose as well. Conference calls could be arranged, and various decisions could be made with a consensus. The EGI however, aims to address five critical issues which it enumerates as 1) fostering more equitable trade and
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 122 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 119 its electronic character. Corporations can conduct business on the telephone, and through the Internet. At some point however, there has to be a physical movement of persons and goods. I have remarked in Chapter 3, p 76 above, that ships built in China find their way to scrap yards in Bangla Desh. These ships have to be physically re-located. The overseeing of such movement requires supervision. Since billions of dollars are at stake, senior executives must travel to ensure that the transactions run smoothly. Air travel still flourishes. This implies that the scale offered by the Internet is not commensurate with the needs of the market economy, by virtue of its locus. It is quite otherwise with the Ethical Globalization Initiative. It is an umbrella organization that brings together various global coalitions, and in this sense literally constitutes the “public of publics.” Initiated by Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, and co-founded by the Aspen Institutive, Columbia University and the Geneva-based International Council on Human Rights, its declared aim is manifold as against the specialized aims of an organization such as Médécins Sans Frontières. The function of an umbrella organization is to co-ordinate the actions of its various constituents. If co-ordination were all, then the conventional telephone would serve the purpose as well. Conference calls could be arranged, and various decisions could be made with a consensus. The EGI however, aims to address five critical issues which it enumerates as 1) fostering more equitable trade and |
