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Lukes Steven |
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Liberals and cannibals the implications of diversity / / Steven Lukes |
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London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Verso, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1-78478-648-9 |
1-78478-649-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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Liberalism |
Political science - Philosophy |
Ethical relativism |
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Note generali |
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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Moral Diversity and Relativism -- 2. Is Universalism Ethnocentric? -- 3. Liberalism for the Liberals -- Cannibalism for the Cannibals -- 4. Different Cultures, Different Rationalities? -- 5. On Comparing the Incomparable: Trade-offs and Sacrifices -- 6. The Singular and the Plural -- 7. Must Pluralists Be Relativists? -- 8. An Unfashionable Fox -- 9. Social Justice: The Hayekian Challenge -- 10. Humiliation and the Politics of Identity -- 11. The Communitarian Voice -- 12. Five Fables about Human Rights -- 13. The Last Word on the Third Way -- Notes -- Index. |
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"Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism." "While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, |
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