Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few
weaknesses. Among the latter should be included its
ethnocentricity, its tendency to universalize the local. The
political theorist makes universal statements about human beings,
societies and states without making a close study of them, and
about reason, tradition, human nature and moral ideals without
appreciating how differently these are understood in different
societies and traditions. These statements are often an uncritical
universalisation of his society's modes of thought and experience.
This book traces this tendency in different areas of moral and
political life, and argues that a critical engagement between
different perspectives offers one possible way to counter this
tendency. Seeking universally valid knowledge is a legitimate
ambition, but Western political theory cannot realise it without
the help of the non-Western as its critical interlocutor.
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