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Title: Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy by Stephen MacEdo ISBN: 0-674-21311-4 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
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Summary: from konigsberg to columbine
Comment: Macedo is the least apologetic of the political liberals. His project is to inculcate a sense of public virtue, recognizing that political liberalism will (and should) have effects on romantic sub-communities, especially those with illiberal tendencies. Macedo, like other political liberals, focuses on producing citizens that are capable of making competent individual political judgments. Since the burden of public reasonableness is shared universally, Macedo sees a particular brand of community developing. But I doubt that Macedo says enough about what a unifying public philosophy entails or how institutions (public schools aren't enough, he acknowledges in his conclusion) can cultivate (or coerce) citizens into prioritizing their public allegiances. In so far as policies such as religious exemptions encourage the formation of deeply felt private beliefs, they might actually encourage private citizens toward public action more effectively than diffuse liberal concepts such as 'mutual respect' or even 'public reasonableness.' Perhaps conflicts arising from particularistic beliefs-even from certain brands of intolerance-are the most effective means of mobilizing citizens to take their status in the polity seriously, to perceive a connection between their private interests and the good of the state. I am suggesting that Macedo's proposed focus on public virtue at the expense of private belief systems might result in less active and critical citizens than a theory that emphasizes cultural and religious differences, when such differences (and their attendant interests) encourage political participation in the first place. If we care about politics because it implicates our private beliefs, than religious or broad philosophical anomie must result in political apathy (or even antipathy). If Americans are more likely to participate politically because of sectarian interests than public civic principles, perhaps we should focus on preserving private belief systems before inculcating public moral principles. It is not obvious that a liberal society is more likely to survive with citizens who believe nothing deeply than it is with citizens who believe in certain principles (even when they border on the illiberal) with great conviction. Columbine is a powerful metonym for the ravages of the anomie Macedo risks.
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Paper)) by Samuel Freeman ISBN: 0521657067 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Identity in Democracy by Amy Gutmann ISBN: 069109652X Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Joel Golb, James Ingram, Christiane Wilke ISBN: 1859844928 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 11 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Kumar Sen, Amartya Sen ISBN: 0674009479 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice by William A. Galston ISBN: 052101249X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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