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What Differences Make a Difference?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

ERIK PARENS
ERIK PARENS
Affiliation:
The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York
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Abstract

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Four years ago The Hastings Center initiated a “pluralism project.” That project gave the Center staff a chance to explore one swath of the theoretical literature concerning how members of democratic regimes ought to think about and respond to the differences among themselves. Much of that literature, produced by philosophers like Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, and John Kekes, is wonderfully articulate about difference in general. But it is nearly silent about how particular categories of difference actually make a difference in the lives of particular individuals negotiating particular institutions.

Type
GUEST EDITORIAL
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press