Description |
xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The morality of pluralism / John Kekes. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgments Ch. 1 Introduction: Setting the Stage 3 Ch. 2 The Six Theses of Pluralism 17 Ch. 3 The Plurality and Conditionality of Values 38 Ch. 4 The Unavoidability of Conflicts 53 Ch. 5 The Nature of Reasonable Conflict-Resolution 76 Ch. 6 The Possibilities of Life 99 Ch. 7 The Need for Limits 118 Ch. 8 The Prospects for Moral Progress 139 Ch. 9 Some Moral Implications of Pluralism: On There Being Some Limits Even to Morality 161 Ch. 10 Some Personal Implications of Pluralism: Innocence Lost and Regained 179 Ch. 11 Some Political Implications of Pluralism: The Conflict with Liberalism 199 Works Cited 219 Index 225 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Pluralism, Values, Ethics |
Summary |
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. The author 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, the author develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications |
Analysis |
Alternative dispute resolution |
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Ethics |
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Overseas item |
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Pluralism |
Notes |
"Companion volume of Moral tradition and individuality, and Facing evil"--P. xii |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-224) and index |
Subject |
Ethics.
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Pluralism.
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Values.
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Author |
Kekes, John.
Facing evil
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Kekes, John.
Moral tradition and individuality
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LC no. |
92040492 |
ISBN |
0691032300 (alk. paper) |
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