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Overlapping Consensus in Malaysia

<p>An empirical study of how Malaysian pluralism is understood through Islam Hadhari, Article 11 and the Inter-faith Commission against the backdrop of current Malaysian political and social history, coupled with a theoretical analysis through John Rawls' Political Liberalism, with particular emphasis on the idea of Overlapping Consensus.</p><p>The thesis is an attempt at applying Rawls' theory on the practical case of Malaysia, as a plural society, while at the same time using the practical case of Malaysia to highlight parts of Rawls' own theory.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-9214
Date January 2007
CreatorsMonsen, Mats
PublisherLinköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, Centrum för tillämpad etik
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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