ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the questions that the multiple modernitie's approach can generate in the specific field of political philosophy. Eisenstadt is usually credited for the notion of multiple modernities and its polemical emphasis against the linear theory of modernization. His life-work encompasses the transition from a comparative version of the paradigm of modernization to the paradigm of multiple modernities. Drawing on Weber's thesis about the distinctive contribution of Calvinism to the development of a modern capitalist society, Eisenstadt began a comparative investigation of different paths to modernization. The chapter discusses equivalent emphasis on the priority of the common good can be easily found in a plurality of religious cultures. Multiple sources for accommodating pluralism sources other than mere equivalents of the tradition that runs from Voltaire's scepticism to Rawls's burdens of judgment are relatively unproblematic to find. In the Confucian tradition, a fundamental difference separates agreeing and harmonizing, where harmonizing preserves a central place for respect of plurality.
