L'incontro e l'emergenza dell'umano/The meeting and the emergence of human

• Published in: Horizonte (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Vol. 8; no. 16; p. 62
• Main Author: Di Martino, Carmine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Belo Horizonte Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Cultural identity; Culture; Multiculturalism & pluralism
• ISSN: 1679-9615; 2175-5841

Multiculturalism is a cultural and political-institutional framework for managing diversity in a multiethnic society, whose theoretical basis proceeds of cultural relativism. As no culture can claim to universal validity, the historicizing process of western rationality points out the end of metaphysical pretension of telling the truth about man and the world, although one believe that doing science is already the case for truth. The necessity of multiculturalism lies in managing diversity and in ensuring tolerance. Its theoretical weakness is paradoxically unable to think of difference itself. Culture always emerges as being the particular as the human appears as being the universal. Only the statement of this universal dimension of experience can establish the respect of other's uniqueness, of his infinite otherness and difference. The human is always understood within a specific culture. The universal structure of experience is at the same time, in and beyond each culture in particular, at the same time immanent and transcendent, there is to say, trans-immanent. This structural identity is constitutively marked by a multiple experience. In this context, one can speak of a reason that in the name of fidelity to experience is willing to rethink the problem of universality, the relationship between the singular and universal. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]