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PHILOSOPHY CULTURE AND PLURALISM Edited by William Sweet Edited by PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE, AND PLURALISM William Sweet The themes of culture and pluralism have become increasingly im- portant in philosophical discussion, but many questions concerning pluralism and culture — the idea of culture, what is presupposed and what is at stake when different ethnic or social or religious groups attempt to promote their cultures, and the implications of this for the nature and practice of philosophy — are only rarely engaged by philosophers. To investigate these issues and related themes in the history of philosophy, in social and political philosophy, and in the philosophy of culture, the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association organized a two-day internatio- nal symposium at the Université Laval in Québec City on “Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism / Philosophie, culture, pluralisme.” Several of the papers that appear in this volume were originally presented at that symposium; others were specially invited for this collection. These essays, which bring together the work of scholars from various parts of Canada, from the United States, and from western Europe, Asia, and Africa, allow their authors to draw on their distinctive experience and interests — but the experience of pluralism, culture, and multiculturalism in one country or part of the world clearly bears on others. Scholars in literary theory, history, sociology, and politics have long recognised this, and have been the principal participants in the discussion of issues concerning culture and pluralism. While this vo- lume also includes cultural theorists, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists, most of the contributors are philosophers, and so this volume shows how philosophers see their contribution to a topic that is of international concern. William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is author of Idealism and Rights (1997) and of Antifoundationalism, Faith, and Community (2002, with Hendrik Hart), and has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including La philosophie de la religion à la fin du vingtième siècle (1993), Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity (1997), God and Argument (1999), The Bases of Ethics (2000) and, most recently, Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community (2001). He is author of some eighty articles, primarily in the history of idealist political thought and the epistemology of religion, and is editor of The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes (1999), of Volume VI of The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain (Notre Dame) and, with Errol E. Harris, of the Works of the South African philosopher, Arthur Ritchie Lord (1880-1941). ISBN 2-9807098-2-4 9782980 709821.

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