CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Ivankovic, Viktor |
|---|---|
| Title | Liberal Multiculturalism and the Principle of Partiality |
| Summary | The aims of this thesis are the normative insights we gain from combining the two separate discussions in political philosophy - on liberal multiculturalism and on the partialities towards relevant political targets (co-nationals, co-citizens, non-citizens). This merge provides a refinement of the notion of partiality, which I believe to be raw in the treatment of many authors, and it opens up significant issues about the scope of justice defended by liberal multiculturalism. The latter provision opens up two central issues of the thesis: 1.) Do the public institutions that follow principles of liberal multiculturalism manifest illegitimate attitudes of co-national partiality?; 2.) Do the public institutions that follow principles of liberal multiculturalism manifest illegitimate attitudes of co-citizen partiality, while ignoring members of disadvantaged societal cultures outside state borders? To the first questions I answer in the negative, while I offer a conditional ‘yes’ for to the second one. The thesis is divided in four parts. The first two sections deal with laying out the terrain and preparing the merging of the relevant concepts. In section 1, I refine the principle of partiality to differentiate between co-nationals and co-citizens, as well as individual and institutional partiality. In section 2, I describe the characteristics of liberal multiculturalism and existing attempts to balance it with models of global justice. Section 3 deals with the first central issue, showing that the institutions of liberal multiculturalism are impartial towards ethnocultural groups by applying group-differentiated rights. Section 4 deals with the second central issue by showing that the scope of justice needs to be extended to societal cultures outside state borders, but also that we should justify prioritizing inner societal cultures on instrumentalist grounds. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/ivankovic_viktor.pdf |
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