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Travelling Concepts - Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Travelling Concepts - Negotiating Diversity in Canada and Europe (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks, 41
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Bhikhu Parekh As creative and reflective agents, human beings seek
meaning in their lives, and develop more or less coherent views of
the world or cultures in terms of which to organize their personal
and collective lives. When different groups of individuals within
the same society subscribe to different ways of thought, they face
the crucial question of how to deal with their cultural diversity
and sustain a shared common life. Premodern societies took a
relatively relaxed view of diversity and generally opted for a
looser union. Modernity brought with it a very different approach
to the subject. This is reflected in, among other things, the
institution of the modern state, especially the liberal democracy
which represents one way of constituting it. Liberal democracy has
exercised a decisive influence on our political and moral
imagination for the past three centuries. Unlike premodern
societies which took the community as their starting point and
defined the individual in terms of it, it takes the individual as
the ultimate and irreducible unit of, and thus conc- tually and
ontologically prior to society. The latter is taken to consist of
in- viduals, and refers to the totality of its members and their
formal and informal relationships. Individual are the sole and
equal sources of moral claims, and social and political
institutions are judged in terms of their ability to safeguard and
promote individual interests.
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