My dissertation Rethinking Liberal Multiculturalism: Culture, Meaning and Pluralism explores the consequences of cultural diversity for liberal democracy, ultimately arguing that modern multiculturalism requires more polycentric and pluralist forms of political theory and social practice.
Few events are as tantalizing as the Hungarian uprising, whose initial few days saw Soviet hesitation and a growing belief that Nagy, the prime minister, could engineer some form of pluralist democracy — Titoism-plus — even within the Communist orbit.
It is the direction of this dependence which divides proponents of fundamentality into pluralists and monists (one form of such monism is defended in Schaffer 2010b; see also Trogdon 2009).
It's crudely majoritarian, explicitly anti-pluralist, and as much a form of culture war aggression as any of Rick Santorum's positions and assertions.
The authors argue that pluralism is the model of democracy that is emerging in the social media age not the ordered, organized vision of early pluralists, but a chaotic, turbulent form of politics.
A second form of the priority pluralist's "fundamental relation" move posits only binary entanglement relations, but allows these to hold between individual particles and whole composite systems.
Blair reflects that the West can 'use the power of community to bring the benefits of globalisation to all' (121) in the form of truly universal values: 'values of liberty, the rule of law, human rights and a pluralist society… Values that are "universal and worthy of respect in every culture"' (122).
For example, Plato is a pluralist about the number of forms, but a monist about the number of basic forms, maintaining that they are all sustained by the form of the good.[5] Moving down from targets that concern a particular type of entity, one might also target a particular token entity, and consider whether it has various sorts of unity.
The theoretical reasons for new axioms that the non-pluralist gives are quite different that the theoretical reasons that are customarily at play in mathematics, in part because, having stepped into the realm of independence, a more subtle form of justification is required, one that relies more heavily on sophisticated mathematical machinery.
