The morality of pluralism / John Kekes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kekes, John.

Contributor:

Kekes, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pluralism.

Values.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

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. 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Setting the Stage

CHAPTER TWO. The Six Theses of Pluralism

CHAPTER THREE. The Plurality and Conditionality of Values

CHAPTER FOUR. The Unavoidability of Conflicts

CHAPTER FIVE. The Nature of Reasonable Conflict-Resolution

CHAPTER SIX. The Possibilities of Life

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Need for Limits

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Prospects of Moral Progress

CHAPTER NINE. Some Moral Implications of Pluralism: On There Being Some Limits Even to Morality

CHAPTER TEN. Some Personal Implications of Pluralism: Innocence Lost and Regained

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Some Political Implications of Pluralism: The Conflict with Liberalism

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

"Companion volume of Moral tradition and individuality, and Facing evil"--P. xii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.

Related Work:

Kekes, John. Moral tradition and individuality.

Kekes, John. Facing evil.

ISBN:

9786612751844

9781400804351

1400804353

9781400821105

140082110X

9781282751842

1282751840

9781400812301

1400812305

OCLC:

700688638