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apply to the Fourth International. There is one model that is perfect, and it’s a matter of time before everyone gets there.
I have cited this case because there is little doubt that the ICL genuinely wishes to support the cause of Muslim women and oppressed minorities. It is however handicapped by its monist view of history and society. Some women may want to wear the veil as a way of affirming themselves. Not all of it is oppression. Writing on the French head-scarf ban, the philosopher Seyla Benhabib states that the act of defiance on the part of the French Muslim girls who triggered the ban is an entry into modernity. I believe that ‘post-modern’ is the more appropriate term. There are web-sites called “hijab.com.”
It will now be clear why I have foregrounded value pluralism in Chapter I. The recognition that “human goals are many” and that core values may be incommensurable allows for the possibility that there may be other values that can be shared. The case of the ICL does not allow for that incommensurability.
On the other hand, the policy of community cohesion that I have outlined above does allow for core values to remain different. While recognising diversity, this policy focuses on what people have in common: citizenship, understood as allegiance, simultaneously to the immediate community and to the larger political society. The U.K. experience instantiates my argument that from value pluralism can emerge toleration and that an appeal to common citizenship can protect difference and preserve social cohesion.
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 157 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 155 apply to the Fourth International. There is one model that is perfect, and it’s a matter of time before everyone gets there. I have cited this case because there is little doubt that the ICL genuinely wishes to support the cause of Muslim women and oppressed minorities. It is however handicapped by its monist view of history and society. Some women may want to wear the veil as a way of affirming themselves. Not all of it is oppression. Writing on the French head-scarf ban, the philosopher Seyla Benhabib states that the act of defiance on the part of the French Muslim girls who triggered the ban is an entry into modernity. I believe that ‘post-modern’ is the more appropriate term. There are web-sites called “hijab.com.” It will now be clear why I have foregrounded value pluralism in Chapter I. The recognition that “human goals are many” and that core values may be incommensurable allows for the possibility that there may be other values that can be shared. The case of the ICL does not allow for that incommensurability. On the other hand, the policy of community cohesion that I have outlined above does allow for core values to remain different. While recognising diversity, this policy focuses on what people have in common: citizenship, understood as allegiance, simultaneously to the immediate community and to the larger political society. The U.K. experience instantiates my argument that from value pluralism can emerge toleration and that an appeal to common citizenship can protect difference and preserve social cohesion. |
