Los dilemas de la diversidad

Hector Díaz-Polanco

doi:10.22409/geographia2006.815.a13508

Los dilemas de la diversidad

GEOgraphia ◽

10.22409/geographia2006.v8i15.a13508 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 8 (15) ◽

Author(s):

Hector Díaz-Polanco

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

John Rawls ◽

Contemporary Liberalism

A demanda por autonomia e reconhecimento da diversidade ligada aos diferentes grupos étnico-culturais latino-americanos enfrenta grandes obstáculos, não só o liberalismo não pluralista, mas tarnbtm o relativismo absoluto que age, muitas vezes, em nome da própria autonomia. O texto prioriza a crítica ao liberalismo contemporâneo na releitura de Kant feita por John Rawls.Abstract Search for autonomy and diversity recognition regarding different ethniccultural groups in Latin America faces great obstacles, not only through non-pluralistic liberalism but also through absolute relativism, which often acts in name of very autonomy. This work stresses the critics to contemporary liberalism under John Rawls re-reading of Kant.

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In What Sense must Socialism be Communitarian?

Social Philosophy and Policy ◽

10.1017/s0265052500000637 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 51-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

David Miller

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Social Relationships ◽

John Rawls ◽

Political Thought ◽

Social Practices ◽

Robert Nozick ◽

Ronald Dworkin ◽

The Social ◽

Contemporary Liberalism ◽

Liberal Thought

This paper stands at the confluence of two streams in contemporary political thought. One stream is composed of those critics of liberal political philosophy who are often described collectively as ‘communitarians’. What unites these critics (we shall later want to investigate how deep their collegiality goes) is a belief that contemporary liberalism rests on an impoverished and inadequate view of the human subject. Liberal political thought – as manifested, for instance, in the writings of John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Ronald Dworkin – claims centrally to do justice to individuality: to specify the conditions under which distinct individuals, each with his own view about how life should be lived, can pursue these visions to the best of their ability. But, the critics claim, liberalism is blind to the social origins of individuality itself. A person comes by his identity through participating in social practices and through his affiliation to collectivities like family and nation. An adequate political philosophy must attend to the conditions under which people can develop the capacity for autonomy that liberals value. This, however, means abandoning familiar preoccupations of liberal thought – especially the centrality it gives to individual rights – and looking instead at how social relationships of the desired kind can be created and preserved. It means, in short, looking at communities – their nature and preconditions.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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