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Published: 10 January 2023
... on the two key features identified above: the plurality of opinions and the unity of the common world in which those opinions can be expressed, exchanged and heard. coercion exercises in political thinking individualism individuality life political the power society space of appearance understanding...
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Published: 30 September 2009
...This chapter discusses pluralism in Muslim societies. While it is generally believed that Muslim societies inherently possess the characteristics of a generic unity and internal coherence, it is argued in this chapter that there exists a “Muslim position” on pluralism. In this chapter...
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Published: 01 September 2020
... of belief and religion in Islam. People are free to choose their religion and belief, and nobody can pressure or force another into accepting the religion of truth and correct beliefs. Islam recognizes the plurality of religions and beliefs, meaning that some will follow the Divine invitation and others...
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Published: 15 April 2011
... with the work of Simone de Beauvoir. Building upon Kristeva's insistence on the singularity and plurality of life, it will be suggested that her engagement with Arendt's ideas establishes the framework of a political philosophy that could, potentially, come to shape a feminist appropriation of Kristeva's work...
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Published: 30 April 2019
... and affirms human plurality—a plurality facilitated by divine unity that does not stand in antagonistic relationship to individual agency. For Düzgün, tawḥīd, or God’s utter oneness, stands in positive and open relation to an empowered individual piously conscious of her responsibility...
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Published: 01 July 2015
... of the freedom of the acting subject. It is also a medium, creating an order of relations between and a shared domain of experience for individuals in their distinctiveness and plurality. For Arendt, politics needs a ‘stage’ for both actors and spectators, for public appearance is an integral part...
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Maria Robaszkiewicz and Michael D. Weinman
Published: 10 January 2023
... thoroughly, add new meanings to them, or put them into different concrete contexts. This chapter introduces what Lisa Disch (1994) describes as Arendt’s “new lexicon of politics.” Our guideposts are natality, plurality, acting, freedom, power, promising and forgiving, the private and the public, the social...
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Published: 01 September 2020
...; second, the plurality of religions and the differences of people in religion, which is a reality related to God’s will; third, a Muslim is not obligated to question others about their religion; forth, coexistence in peace and with respect: Muslims are obligated to be at peace with others...
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Published: 04 July 2006
... Convention, they agreed that Scottish Parliament elections should be conducted using an Additional Member System. One key aim of the new system, which was similar to that used in postwar Germany, was to reduce the very substantial advantage that Labour currently derived from single-member plurality...
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Published: 01 August 2023
... differently, taking into account our vulnerability, plurality, and the unchosenness of our cohabitation. The chapter shows that there are two main paths toward this goal. One is the active repudiation of our own violent and destructive impulses, while the other refers to acknowledging interdependence between...