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Pragmatism And Pluralism, Together Again, Matthew J. Moore
Pragmatism And Pluralism, Together Again, Matthew J. Moore
Political Science
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Pluralism, Relativism, And Liberalism, Matthew J. Moore
Pluralism, Relativism, And Liberalism, Matthew J. Moore
Political Science
One major focus of recent value-pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have agreed that values and sets of values are unrankable, any effort to claim that one such set is morally preferable will inevitably contradict value pluralism, either explicitly or implicitly. If this is correct, it seems that pluralism leads to relativism.