Edmund Burke's Value Pluralism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allyn Fives (0000-0002-7435-2397, Department of Politics, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Rd., Galway, Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 583-600 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2022.2041287 |
| OpenAlex | W4213078650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Given his commitment to toleration, Edmund Burke is rightly seen as a moral pluralist. What has largely gone unnoticed, however, is his value pluralism. Whereas moral pluralism refers to normative positions regarding what we have reason to do when faced with diverse considerations, value pluralism is a meta-ethical position regarding how we resolve conflicts between any number of reasons for action. Like Isaiah Berlin, Burke maintains both that we may be faced with value conflicts and that we cannot identify the general rule for their resolution. However, Burke, at times, adopts a weak version of value pluralism, identifying a general rule for the resolution of some moral conflicts. This is the case when he insists that liberty cannot exist at all without order and virtue, and when he reassures his readers that toleration of Irish Catholicism poses no threat to the established order. At other times, however, Burke offers a strong version of value pluralism, eschewing any such rule. One of the benefits of doing so is the awareness that toleration may be justified even when contrary to the demands of order and virtue
Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Toleration · Value pluralism · Value theory · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. 2: Party, Parliament, and the American War: 1766-1774
The Morality of Pluralism
The Problem of Burke's Political Philosophy
Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism
Isaiah Berlin
Why the traditional conception of toleration still matters
Antigone in Hertfordshire
Empire and Revolution
Party, Parliament, and Conquest in Newly Ascribed Burke Manuscripts
Humean Moral Pluralism
Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism
The Sociological Tradition
Understanding Pluralism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |