Europe is split between cosmopolitan and patrimony-protecting moral visions

Evidence

In Europe the question of ‘why can’t we just get along’ is intimately linked to the matter of the moral status that should be assigned to others who are alike, but also, fundamentally, unlike ‘us’. This matter, in turn, cannot be addressed without refl ecting on the tension between two Europes: a cosmopolitan Europe that struggles against ethnocentric temptations (Beck, 2006 ) and a conservative Europe, attempting to protect what it sees as its ‘patrimony’, but careful to champion a rhetoric of human values and sympathy (Finkielkraut, 2013 ). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 719

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the cosmopolitan vs. patrimonial ‘two Europes’ analytic frame as a way to locate intergroup moral disputes.

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