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Dissent on Core Beliefs
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Difference, diversity, and disagreement are inevitable features of our ethical, social, and political landscape. Although difference of opinion is not a modern phenomenon, the modern world is particularly concerned with the ethical navigation of difference. What is the range of appropriate responses to deep disagreement? How should we interact with those with whom we do not see eye to eye? When does elasticity properly become diversity? These questions can be addressed to many different actors. States for example are a common place to start as they are critical agents in managing and navigating pluralism and difference. We start with traditions rather than states, however, because traditions are in some sense prior to states. How a state deals with diversity and pluralism will often be determined by the ethical tradition or traditions that find a home there.
Traditions have an immense impact on people’s lives. To be brought up as a Catholic, to think of oneself as a liberal, to be at home within a Confucian social order, these ways of being in the world carry with them hosts of substantive implications. Interrogating the ethical messages that various traditions send about how to treat their opponents and rivals, and examining how these messages have been played out in the concrete histories of these traditions have proved to be a very large topic. The chapters that follow investigate the issues raised and ethical questions posed by one very particular type of opponent: the fellow traveler. We have asked our authors to lay out the distinctive features of intramural dissent in nine ethical traditions – Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, Judaism, the religions of South Asia, liber- alism, Marxism, and natural law – followed by a concluding Afterword
Simone Chambers and Peter Nosco - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-1-107-10152-4
NONE
Dissent on Core Beliefs
Management
English
Cambridge University Press
2015
USA
1-256
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