The morality of pluralism /

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Author / Creator:	Kekes, John.
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Pluralism. Values. Ethics. Ethics. Pluralism. Values. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117670

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Other uniform titles:	Kekes, John. Moral tradition and individuality. Kekes, John. Facing evil.
ISBN:	1400812305 9781400812301 9781400821105 140082110X 0691032300 9780691032306 0691044740 9780691044743 1282751840 9781282751842 9786612751844 6612751843
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Notes:	"Companion volume of Moral tradition and individuality, and Facing evil"--Page xii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index. English. Print version record.
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. Main.
Other form:	Print version: Kekes, John. Morality of pluralism. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993 0691032300
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
The Morality of Pluralism
Chapter 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage
Chapter 2. The Six Theses of Pluralism
Chapter 3. The Plurality and Conditionality of Values
Chapter 4. The Unavoidability of Conflicts
Chapter 5. The Nature of Reasonable Conflict-Resolution
Chapter 6. The Possibilities of Life
Chapter 7. The Need for Limits
Chapter 8. The Prospects of Moral Progress
Chapter 9. Some Moral Implications of Pluralism: on There Being Some Limits Even to Morality
Chapter 10. Some Personal Implications of Pluralism: Innocence Lost and Regained
Chapter 11. Some Political Implications of Pluralism: the Conflict with Liberalism
Works Cited
Index

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