By Marguerite Mendell
Marguerite Mendell (ed.)
Building at the principles of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose contributions as public intellectuals devoted to social justice span nearly 5 a long time, "Reclaiming Democracy" beneficial properties discussions by way of eminent students approximately social ethics, political financial system, and democracy. "Reclaiming Democracy" strains their impression on serious social idea. The essays, which concentration partially at the Caribbean, offer an highbrow viewpoint to floor the growing to be competition to dominant associations by means of social activities suffering opposed to injustice round the world.Contributors contain Samir Amin (Third international discussion board, Senegal), Lloyd most sensible (Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies), Duncan Cameron (University of Ottawa), Ursula Franklin (University of Toronto), Norman Girvan (University of West Indies), Denis Goulet (University of Notre Dame), Arvind Sharma (McGill University), Carolyn Sharpe (Saint Paul's University), Mel Watkins (University of Toronto), and Michael Witter (University of the West Indies).
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"A tribute to social justice that offers much-needed wish for the future." Jacques Godbout, professor of sociology, Institut nationwide de recherche et securite
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NOTES 1 Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, the Story of My Experiments With Truth (Boston: Beacon Press, i957):5O4. 2 Matt. 22:21; Mark 12:17. 3 Peter L. Berger, A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity (New York: Free Press/Macmillan, i992):28-9. 4 Ibid:30. 5 David H. " Latin American Prospects 3i 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Culture, Religion, and Development for the 8os: What Kinds of Development? Vol. 1, p. 9. Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.
The divisions of mankind living either in a world of rights or in a world of obligations will thereby be broken and the best from both worlds can be integrated. Second, because the world of obligations is wider than the world of rights, many important features of human dignity and human intercourse which were not included in the current human rights 39 Human Dignity or Human Rights discussion could be easily accommodated. For example, the current human rights doctrines do not include such important moral values like "truth telling," "promise keeping," "alleviating suffering," and so on.
1999). 4 See for instance: Fernand Braudel, Afterthought on Material Civilisation and Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,i977). Michel Chossudrovsky, The Globalization of Poverty (Atlantic Highlands Nj: Zen Books, 1997). William Greider, One World, Ready or Not (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997). Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes (London: Little, Brown, 1994). 5 John Desmond Bernal, The Social Uses of Science (London: Routledge, 1939). , The Science of Science, Essays on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of "The Social Function of Science" (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964).