Suchergebnisse

This book offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics. It argues that public culture provides the mediating spaces required for processes of encounter, but should be supplemented with an open dialogue on history, memory, and identity. Since democratic modernity is consolidating its new phase characterized by the multiplicity of perspectives, the mediation of conflict, identity, and memory are required to continue fostering mutual understanding and the identification of issues of common concern. The historical emergence of a public culture is a democratic gain. Recognizing this offers opportunities for ethical transformation that respects diversity but also addresses the realities of conflict under conditions of postmodernity.

This chapter illustrates how a philosophical anthropology of interculturality can be the vehicle of higher level social, political, and ethical identities. It explores interculturality as a dynamic and inclusive model for the encounter with cultural, ethnic, national, and religious difference. Anthropology offers cross-cultural perspectives on social behavior and moral learning regarding the management of conflict. Anthropology, with its vast documentation of indigenous societies, past and present, including descriptions of nonviolent modes of conflict resolution, approaches to peacemaking, and creation of peace systems, provides a pool of knowledge about successful approaches to creating and maintaining interculturality, for example, with propeace values and inclusive identities. ; Este capítulo refleja cómo una filosofía antropológica de la interculturalidad puede ser la herramienta de identidades de un mayor nivel social, político y ético. El texto explora la interculturalidad como modelo dinámico y participativo en su encuentro con diferencias culturales, étnicas, nacionales y religiosas. La Antropología ofrece perspectivas interculturales sobre comportamiento social y aprendizaje moral con respecto al manejo del conflicto. Así mismo, con su amplia información sobre sociedades indígenas, pasadas y presentes, la antropología incluye descripciones de modalidades no violentas de resolución de conflictos, acercamientos a la Paz y a la creación de sistemas de paz, y proporciona un acervo de conocimientos sobre métodos eficaces a la hora de crear y mantener la interculturalidad, por ejemplo, con valores pro-paz e identidades participativas.