PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Color Blindness, Western Philosophy
1 Sep 2020
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To ascribe rights on the basic of membership in ascriptive groups was seen as inherently morally arbitrary and discriminatory, necessarily creating first and second class citizens. The first task confronting any defender of multiculturalism was to try to overcome this presumption and show that deviations from difference-blind rules which are adopted in order to accommodate ethnocultural differences are not inherently unjust. This focus on civic virtue and political stability represents the opening of a second front in the multiculturalism wars. Many critics claims that multicultural polices are misguided, not because they"re unjust in themselves, but because they are corrosive of long-term political unity and social stability. While traditional views about sexual discrimination have been progressively abandoned, many feminists believe that the principles which were develop with men"s experiences and interests in mind are incapable of adequately recognizing women"s needs or incorporating women"s experiences.
