The Morality of Pluralism / / John Kekes.

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 du...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1993
Year of Publication:1996
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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