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Title: Ethical Challenges of Authority in a Pluralistic Society
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Nigerian Example
ISBN-10: 3631335628
EAN: 9783631335628
ISBN: 9783631335628
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/10/1998
Description: Pluralism is more than difference in behavioral patterns. It is a fundamental difference in worldviews, and Nigeria typifies it. It implies that autonomous individuals within a societal continuum do not constitute an integral amalgamation of a body-politic. A multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual blend, Nigeria serves as a good laboratory for pluralist test. What Nigeria needs is authority in order to articulate these plural and conflicting world-views into a reasonable discourse or committed dialogue. It is then the challenge of authority in Nigeria to reconcile the apparent incompatibilities within the multiple groups into a reasonable consensus. Plagued with the pathological equivocations of human rights, incessant military coups and counter-coups, vicious ethnic discrimination and lack of regard for meritocracy, Nigeria stands as a classical example of a leaderless society. Derided by foes as a political patchwork, and portrayed by friends as a potential volcano, all that Nigeria needs is authority that can articulate her numerous but diversified potentials into a catalyst for human development.No sustainable political or social foundations could be laid in the absence of this desideratum.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Item Weight: 290g
Author: Josephat Okanumee Nwankwo
Genre: Law & Politics
Book Series: European University Studies
Release Year: 1998

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