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Pluralism and Liberalism

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ID6345114
AuthorsGeorge Crowder (0000-0002-9332-9416, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume42
Issue2
Pages293-305
Publication date1994-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9248.1994.tb01913.x
OpenAlexW2000064314
LanguageEN
Citations received35

Meta-ethical pluralism, as developed in the work of writers like Isaiah Berlin, is the idea that ethical values cannot be reduced to a single hierarchy or system but are irreducibly multiple. It has often been argued that simply to recognize this fact is to have a reason to favour liberal institutions. On the contrary, the plurality of values in itself gives us no reason to support liberalism, indeed no reason to prefer any particular political arrangement to any other. If pluralism is true, the liberal's best defence may lie in appealing, in the manner of writers like Walzer and Rorty, to the de facto limitations on moral commitments imposed by the existing political culture

Classical liberalism · De facto · Economics · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Law and economics · Liberalism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Value pluralism · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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Unique citing works35
Citations per year1,13
Citation span1995 - 2020 (26)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 35
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