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The Plural Society and the Western Political Tradition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Kenneth D. McRae
Kenneth D. McRae
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Carleton University
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 675 - 688
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1979

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1 For summaries of the incident, see Morris, C., Western Political Thought, Vol. 1 (New York: Basic Books, 1967), 123–24Google Scholar, and Tarn, W. W., Alexander the Great (Boston: Beacon Press, 1956), 115–17Google Scholar. For a more critical view, see Badian, E., “Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind,” Historia 7 (1958), 428–32.Google Scholar

2 Fora brief overview, see Thomson, J. A. K. (ed.), The Ethics of Aristotle (London: Penguin Books, 1955), 13–15.Google Scholar

3 See Nicholls, D., Three Varieties of Pluralism (London: Macmillan, 1974)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and also his The Pluralist State (London: Macmillan, 1975).Google Scholar

4 Nicholls, Three Varieties, 25.

5 See my Consociational Democracy: Political Accommodation in Segmented Societies (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974).Google Scholar

6 Morris, Western Political Thought, Vol. 1, 108.

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12 Discourses, Book I, chap. 39, and Book III, chap. 43.

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18 Philosophie de l'ethnisme (Nalinnes-lez-Charieroi: Institut Jules Destree, 1969), 28.Google Scholar

19 On Hindu cultural syncretism there is a stimulating unpublished paper by my colleague Subramaniam, V., “A Non-political Tradition of Cultural Integration of Indian Society,” presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations,Milwaukee, 1978.Google Scholar

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