In Defense Of Liberal Pluralism
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Author | : Upendra Chidella |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1443882453 |
This book takes a critical view of Kantian and Neo-Kantian moral philosophers’ preference of universalism, the unity of morality, moral impartiality, consensus, and common morality. The central claim of the book is if the human condition is treated as complex and infested with irreducible choices and alternatives, then moral rightness and wrongness ought to operate beyond these binaries; giving epistemic status to Pluralism’s multiple rationalities. Redefining liberal-pluralism, the book also argues that moral reasoning is necessarily bound by paradoxes and contradictions, seen in our choices of life-projects, in the conflict between individual morality and common morality, and in justifying what is morally reasonable in the interpersonal framework. Equivocation in moral argumentation cannot be valued without understanding the nature of the ‘interpersonal’ that ought to sufficiently argue for moral disagreement, irreducible pluralism and limits of morality. Liberal-pluralism, thus, signifies the quasi-relational (partially admitting Gilbert Harman) nature of moral reasoning in the multi-agent framework. It also takes account of reciprocity, fairness, reasonableness, tolerance, open-ended morality, and agreeing to disagree. However, this idea of liberal-pluralism no way undermines rationality and reason, nor turns to anti-theory; rather, it only treats morality as guided by ‘reason without unification’ and ‘pluralism without relativism’.
Author | : William A. Galston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521549639 |
Author | : William Arthur Galston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002-05-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521012492 |
Author | : William Arthur Galston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cultural pluralism |
ISBN | : 9781107125667 |
No contemporary actor has William Galston's status as both a political philosopher and political actor. This book was first published in 2002.
Author | : Eric MacGilvray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110887777X |
We seem to be losing the ability to talk to each other about – and despite – our political differences. The liberal tradition, with its emphasis on open-mindedness, toleration, and inclusion, is ideally suited to respond to this challenge. Yet liberalism is often seen today as a barrier to constructive dialogue: narrowly focused on individual rights, indifferent to the communal sources of human well-being, and deeply implicated in structures of economic and social domination. This book provides a novel defense of liberalism that weaves together a commitment to republican self-government, an emphasis on the value of unregulated choice, and an appreciation of how hard it is to strike a balance between them. By treating freedom rather than justice as the central liberal value this important book, critical to the times, provides an indispensable resource for constructive dialogue in a time of political polarization.
Author | : Galston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Cultural pluralism |
ISBN | : 9780511171130 |
Author | : Thaddeus J. Kozinski |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739141686 |
In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining three of the most influential figures of religious pluralism theory: John Rawls, Jacques Maritain, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Drawing on a diverse number of sources, Kozinski addresses the flaws in each philosopher's views and shows that the only philosophically defensible end of any overlapping consensus political order must be the eradication of the ideological pluralism that makes it necessary. In other words, a pluralistic society should have as its primary political aim to create the political conditions for the communal discovery and political establishment of that unifying tradition within which political justice can most effectively be obtained. Kozinski's analysis, though exhaustive and rigorous, still remains accessible and engaging, even for a reader unversed in the works of Rawls, Maritain, and MacIntyre. Interdisciplinary and multi-thematic in nature, it will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.
Author | : George Crowder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 144118807X |
Value pluralism is the idea, associated with the late Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are irreducibly plural and incommensurable. Ends like liberty, equality and community are intrinsic goods which can neither be ranked in an absolute hierarchy nor translated into units of a common denominator. If that is true, how can we choose among such values when they come into conflict in particular cases? In particular, what reason is there to justify the value ranking characteristic of liberal democracy, favouring personal autonomy and toleration? Recent commentators have seen value pluralism as undermining the traditional claims of liberalism to universal authority, rendering it at best no more than one political form among others with no greater claim to legitimacy. Against that view, George Crowder argues that a strong distinctive case for liberalism as a universal project is implied by value pluralism itself. Reflection on the elements of value pluralism yields a set of ethical principles, including respect for universal values, rejection of political utopianism, promotion of value diversity, accommodation of reasonable disagreement, and cultivation of civic virtues. Those principles are best satisfied by a liberal form of politics characterised by a strong commitment to personal autonomy, by policies of moderate redistribution and multiculturalism, and by constitutional restraints on democractic politics. This is the first book-length defence of liberalism on the basis of value pluralism, complementing and extending the work of Berlin and others.
Author | : William Arthur Galston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cultural pluralism |
ISBN | : 9780511298271 |
Author | : Richard Boyd |
Publisher | : Applications of Political Theory |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for maintaining liberal democratic institutions. In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues-through a careful reading of such seminal figures as Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Mill, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott-that contemporary theorists have not only tended to ignore the question of which sorts of groups ought to count as "civil society" but they have also unduly discounted the ambivalence of violent and illiberal groups in a liberal democracy. Boyd seeks to correct this conceptual confusion by offering us a better moral taxonomy of the virtue of civility.