Sympathy as a foundation of multicultural society. A dialogue with Adam Smith

Riferimento: 9788893590662

Editore: Storia e Letteratura
Autore: Hiroyuki Ishimatsu
Collana: Ricerca filosofica
In commercio dal: 09 Luglio 1905
Pagine: 352 p., Libro
EAN: 9788893590662

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If legal norms and the ascription of rights are to achieve their purposes, they must receive public support. What, then, can provide the foundation for a sense of belonging, and make a reality of legal equality in a multicultural society? How can a sense of belonging to the society as a whole be achieved among all of its members? Ishimatsu's answer is sympathy understood as 'fellow-feeling'. The absence of this social sentiment as thoroughly formulated by Adam Smith in the eighteenth century is a cause of problems in contemporary multicultural society. Sympathy, which takes the form of a moderate sentiment towards others, is needed to cement a multicultural society and make possible the full realisation of its legal and official goals.