Reflection on both the disunity objection to monism and the unity objection to pluralism about pleasure suggests a further option.
Over the past two centuries, patriotism has been invoked to make the case for all sorts of things: military sacrifice, conscientious objection, unity, dissent, inclusion, exclusion, anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism, tax cuts, a living wage (not to mention cigars and shopping).
Two senior Labor officials -- Yossi Beilin, the justice minister, and Shlomo Ben-Ami, the foreign minister -- have expressed objections to a unity government and said they would not take part in it.
The last round of US-brokered peace talks, presided over by Kerry, foundered in April over Israeli objections to a Palestinian political unity pact including the Islamist Hamas movement and Palestinian opposition to unremitting Israeli settlement expansion.
In effect, the objection presupposes that that synchronic phenomenal unity – the sort of unity which obtains among simultaneous momentary contents – is the only mode of phenomenal unity.
Despite the ban on hazing, he said, the school newspaper consistently runs editorials in objection, saying that initiation rites build team unity.
Finally, Kant's reconciliation of the infinite divisibility of space and the unity of monads in the Physical monadology is designed to respond to objections that could be raised naturally by Wolff and Baumgarten.
Leading parties agreed to create a national unity government after an ethnic Albanian party, the Party for Democratic Prosperity, dropped its objections.
Kymlicka has proposed an influential liberal cultural theory in which it is argued that certain types of multicultural rights are consistent with liberal democratic principles and that common objections on the grounds of individual freedom, social justice and national unity should not have the last word, as they can be reasonably solved.
