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| Title: |
No surrender? The attachment to identity and contemporary political thought |
| Author: |
Gilliatt, Stephen |
| Appeared in: |
Contemporary politics |
| Paging: | Volume 8 (2002) nr. 1 pages 23-35 |
| Year: |
2002-03-01 |
| Contents: |
The defence of value pluralism in contemporary political philosophy has involved an abstention from questioning the commitments that individuals make to their particular doctrines and identities. This has prevented discussion of the phenomena of identity through conflict that is at the heart of the failure of politics in a number of contemporary settings. 'Political liberalism' and deliberative democracy, in their different ways, are shown to have sidestepped this problem even though they both defend a polity based on equal respect. When the hardness of divisive commitment is not sufficiently limited by mutual fear then even a modus vivendi is insufficient. In these circumstances politics requires a moral foundation that can query the investment made in asserting identity. This article, employing a modified version of Stoicism, presents a case for the moral indifference of identity and shows this to be a precondition for the loosening of passionate attachment without which peaceful politics cannot be guaranteed. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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