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Intolerance - Political Animals and Their Prey (Paperback)
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Intolerance - Political Animals and Their Prey (Paperback)
Series: Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point
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Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals.
Whether through birth or from choice, people naturally cluster into
groups for protection, advancement, and the pursuit of well-being.
But Aristotle's description does not hint at the powerful binary
tension within this human tendency. Leaders enhance a social
group's sense of identity by appealing to the members' commitments
and shared traditions, to their hopes, strengths, sacrifices, and
fears. Often, however, they cultivate not only an awareness of
difference but even a sense of superiority, since for every social
group there are those outsider, the "them". Maintaining a group's
solidarity can too easily lead to the righteousness of intolerance
towards those who are excluded. The reinforcement of group-identity
in this way runs so deep in human nature that holding up a mirror
to ourselves inevitably reveals a split image: the people we want
to see and the people we're glad we're not. Intolerance: Political
Animals and Their Prey presents stark examples of how the "us" have
treated the "them". The papers in this volume hold up various
unflattering mirrors of intolerance from the areas of History, Law,
Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. The authors of these
scholarly studies do not condemn. Rather, their research compels us
to look at ourselves as the political animals we are. Intolerance:
Political Animals and Their Prey is the product of a year-long
multi-disciplinary collaboration between faculty members of Bard
College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The
project involved parallel seminar courses at both institutions
along with Joint Sessions, all focused on the central theme of
intolerance, and culminated in a three-day academic Conference at
Bard in the Spring of 2015. This volume inaugurates a new series
being published by Hamilton Books under the general title,
Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point.
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