Memorializing Aqsa Parvez: Public Feelings and Secular Multiculturalism

Challenging the Public Denial of Racism for a Deeper Multiculturalism

Secular state, conscientious objection and public health policies.

Secularity matters to health policies. Secularity is more than religious neutrality in government affairs – it is a condition for governability in a plural and democratic state. In health, it matters where government leaders seek inspiration for their official acts, whether in academic knowledge or in religions. The post-modern concern over the statute of truth is insufficient to strip science ...

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism and Museums in China

Multiculturalism and the Australian Constitution

The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...