The morality of pluralism
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The morality of pluralism
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, [1996?], c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Setting the Stage3Ch. 2The Six Theses of Pluralism17Ch. 3The Plurality and Conditionality of Values38Ch. 4The Unavoidability of Conflicts53Ch. 5The Nature of Reasonable Conflict-Resolution76Ch. 6The Possibilities of Life99Ch. 7The Need for Limits118Ch. 8The Prospects for Moral Progress139Ch. 9Some Moral Implications of Pluralism: On There Being Some Limits Even to Morality161Ch. 10Some Personal Implications of Pluralism: Innocence Lost and Regained179Ch. 11Some Political Implications of Pluralism: The Conflict with Liberalism199Works Cited219Index225
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