The moral and political philosophy of pluralism has become increasingly influential. To pluralists, when values genuinely conflict we should aim to strike an appropriate balance or trade-off between them, though this means accepting that compromise will be inevitable. Politics, as a result, appears as a thoroughly tragic affair.
Drawing on a "hermeneutical" conception of interpretation, the author develops an original account of practical reasoning, one which assumes that, though making compromises in the face of conflicts is indeed often unavoidable, there are times when reconciliation,...

In this publication, Charles Blattberg shows that while a just politics based on dialogue is at the core of Canadians' sense of themselves as a citizenry, their current forms of dialogue are inadequate. For example, neutralist thinkers such as Pierre Trudeau assume that politics must take place on a unified foundation, with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms having a trumping status when it conflicts with values not contained within it. The final word thus goes to those Supreme Court justices responsible for applying the Constitution. Any dialogue here, it is clear, is of that limited sort...

'Patriotic Elaborations' examines how an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.

'Patriotic Elaborations' examines how an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.

What if Don Quixote were a philosophy student? Theo Hoshen, a brilliant philosophy undergraduate, has never read Cervantes' novel. But he has read Aristotle - and how. Which is why, following an outrageous prank performed by a clandestine group of engineering students, he decides to lead some friends in an act of revenge. Things soon get completely out of hand, however, resulting in deep trouble for them all as well as a discovery of truly cosmological proportions. For it appears that there are dimensions of reality that few knew existed...