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The Morality of Pluralism

By John Kekes

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9781400821105
DOI
10.1515/9781400821105
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1512030 bytes)
Edition
Core Textbook
Pages
238\239
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 05:00:20

Description

Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary. Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications.

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