Department of Philosophy, Presidency University, Kolkata
Online published on 27 June, 2017.
The proposed paper would explore the possibility of the role of women to construct a new world order as an area of study. It is worth noticing that in spite of the fact that the human society has undergone a long course of evolution the search for a new world order is still on. This makes it obvious that the existing order is not acceptable to us in all respect. So the attempts are on to theorise the pattern of new society and the feminists also have come forward to contribute in this project. Here, the inclusionist program of liberal feminists engaged in building up a deliberative democratic model depending on experiences derived from women's lives has been taken up to consider. The new world order would be designed by identifying the areas of social and political discrimination of all sorts and making maximum scope for inclusion of discriminated, marginalised groups of people in the decision-making processes. The liberal feminists reframe the ideals of deliberative democracy in their own terms. The ideals of inclusion, political equality, reasonableness receive new dimensions on their interpretation. The introduction of nurturance as a political ideal makes their political thought quite different from others. They emphasise on the role of persuasion, dialogue, listening to others’ need, emotion in order to construct a successful system of deliberation promoting justice. With such a deliberative democratic polity the feminists hope to achieve the ideal of justice, equality, neutrality in social order.
new world order, inclusionist programme, feminist attempt, deliberative democracy, nurturance