Constructing Community : Moral Pluralism and Tragic Conflicts

by Moon, J. Donald

• ISBN13: 9780691025506
• ISBN10: 0691025509
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

In developing a new theory of political and moral community, J. Donald Moon takes questions of cultural pluralism and difference more seriously than do many other liberal thinkers of our era: Moon is willing to confront the problem of how community can be created among those who have very different views about the proper ends of human life. Experiencing such profound disagreement, can we live together in a society under norms we all accept? In recent years, traditional ways of looking at this query have come under attack by post-modernists, feminists, and thinkers concerned with pluralism. Respectfully engaging their critiques, Moon proposes a reformulated liberalism that is intended to overcome the problems they have identified.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Constructing Community	p. 2
Introduction: Political Liberalism and Plurality	p. 3
Moral Pluralism and Political Theory	p. 13
Appealing to Nature	p. 36
From Contract to Discourse	p. 74
Political Liberalism	p. 98
Rights, Private Property, and Welfare	p. 121
Citizenship and Gender	p. 146
Are Rights Exclusive?	p. 163
Democracy	p. 190
Conclusion: Consensuality-and Nonconsensuality	p. 211
References	p. 223
Index	p. 233
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