Publication Type
Monograph
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2010
Abstract
Many modern liberals have been eager to tout the virtues of diversity, but many have equally found it difficult to tolerate customs or traditions that do not conform to liberalism’s deepest commitments to equality and individual liberty. The distinction between traditional and modern is not a very useful one for understanding the problems confronting liberal society, or for working out how to address them because the contrast does not pick out a tension or conflict about which we can usefully generalise. Chandran Kukatahs suggests that as the tension in question is not one that is capable of resolution, the best we can do is stumble along making a succession of accommodations as the world changes around us. This is, of course, also a kind of liberalism.
Discipline
Ethics and Political Philosophy | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
First Page
1
Last Page
18
ISBN
978186432040
Publisher
Centre for Independent Studies
City or Country
St Leonards, NSW
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran, "Reconciling modernity and tradition in a liberal society" (2010). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 2958.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2958
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2958
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Additional URL
https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2015/07/op121.pdf