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- £5.00
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VENUE: Lancaster Library
‘Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects’ Steven Pinker
Making Peace in the Culture Wars takes the ‘woke’ side, but argues that the woke case is not best made by visiting the same oppressions on opponents as the latter have historically visited on minorities, women and people of alternative views and ways.
The key to the case is that culture conflict arises not between competing rights but between interests and rights, that genuine and fully enacted respect for rights is the way to end discrimination of all kinds, and that the resulting situation would in the ideal be one that the Spanish call ‘convivencia’ – that is, living together or co-existence.
A.C. Grayling is the Founder and Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. His many books include Democracy and Its Crisis, The History of Philosophy, For the Good of World and Who Owns the Moon?
