Constructing Community

J. Donald Moon

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Author
J. Donald Moon
Publish Date
1995-03-26
Subtitle
Moral Pluralism and Tragic Conflicts
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
248
Publisher Name
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691025509
ISBN-13
9780691025506
citemno
277138
SKU
9780691025506

Description

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.