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Title: The Many And The One by Richard Madsen, Tracy B. Strong ISBN: 0-691-09993-6 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good collection from a variety of traditions!
Comment: As with most essay collections, this book is about theme and variation. The theme is ethical pluralism; the variation is by 'worldview'. First, the theme. Ethical pluralism means a variety of different things. A.) it can mean that values are incommensurate and often irreducibly conflicting; B.) it can mean that within a particular 'worldview' there are a variety of different ways to live; C.) it can mean that there are many, and equally rational, vantage points from which to see the world and the issues therein. This collection - as a collection, not a unit - oscillates between the three meanings.
Now for the variations - ethical pluralism is discussed in these essays from a variety of different vantage points; each discussing how ethical pluralism permeates their philosophy or religion. Natural Law, Liberalism (classical and egalitarian), Islam, Confuscianism, Christianity, Judaism, Feminism and Critical Theory are the vantage points from which the essays are respectively written. For each worldview, there are two essays; the first, giving a philosophical and historical outline of pluralism within the particular worldview; the second, by another philosopher of that tradition who expands on on the first essay.
Overall, the collection was good, well thought-out, and informative. Occasionally it got a bit repititious (as essay collections on a specific theme tend to do). While some of the essays (those on natural law, liberalism, Judaism, and Christianity) were written on how these philosophies deal with societal pluralism in general, many of the others (Islam, feminism, Confuscianism) seemed only to tout pluralism by suggesting that WITHIN THEIR GROUP there are slight variations of adherents, thus, they are pluralistic. Personally, I like the first approach better.
Still, there is a wealth of information in this book. Even the worst of the essays were informative and all were written in a very cordial and non-abrasive manner that attempts to explain, not convince or convert. Many traditions to explore and all seem to have much to say.
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Title: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe ISBN: 1859843301 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Children of Light and the Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr ISBN: 0023875305 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: June, 1974 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Democracy and Tradition by Jeffrey Stout ISBN: 0691102937 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Political Liberalism by John Rawls ISBN: 0231052499 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Democracy in Dark Times by Jeffrey C. Isaac ISBN: 0801484545 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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