PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Liberal Democracy
1 Sep 2020
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The third stage: multiculturalism as a response to nation- The liberal state, in it"s normal operation, abides by a principle of reign neglect towards ethnocultural diversity. Following centuries of civil war between catholic and protestant in. Europe, the principle of engine neglect has helped to ensure relative peace and tranquility. Indeed, some theorists argue that this is precisely what distinguishes liberal civic nations from illiberal ethnic nations. Ethnic nations take the reproduction of a particular ethnonational culture and identity as one of their most important goals. Civic nations, by contrast, are indifferent to the ethnocultural identities of their citizen, and define national membership purely in terms of adherence to certain principles of democracy and justice. However, this idea that liberal-democratic states, or civic nations, are indifferent to ethnocultural identities is manifestly false. Policies in america, for example, have all been aimed to assure that. English is enforced on all people, even though it is not their official language.
