TY - JOUR
T1 - One to avoid, one to engage : unmasking and conflict pluralism as European heritages
AU - BAEHR, William Peter
N1 - The author originally delivered this essay as a lecture at “What Europe? Ideals to Fight for Today,” a conference held at Bard College Berlin on March 27 and 28, 2014. More information on the conference can be found here: http://conference.berlin.bard.edu/
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The heritage we need to avoid is a way of thinking about those who disagree with us on matters of fundamental moral and political principle—it is the heritage of unmasking. Unmasking is a mode of exposure that accuses a person, argument, or way of life of being fundamentally defective. Unmaskers do not simply claim to see what others have missed; they claim to see through a person or object. The heritage which we should engage is one that I call conflict pluralism - colliding modes of life and clashing estimates of the good that rational argument is unable to resolve but which a democratic polity must accommodate if it is to remain pluralist
AB - The heritage we need to avoid is a way of thinking about those who disagree with us on matters of fundamental moral and political principle—it is the heritage of unmasking. Unmasking is a mode of exposure that accuses a person, argument, or way of life of being fundamentally defective. Unmaskers do not simply claim to see what others have missed; they claim to see through a person or object. The heritage which we should engage is one that I call conflict pluralism - colliding modes of life and clashing estimates of the good that rational argument is unable to resolve but which a democratic polity must accommodate if it is to remain pluralist
UR - https://issuu.com/bardcollege/docs/2015_ha_journal_text_pages
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6012
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 3
SP - 107
EP - 120
JO - HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center
JF - HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center
SN - 2168-6572
ER -