pluralism
- noun
- /ˈplʊrəlɪzəm/
- Formal
- Moral pluralism recognizes that individuals can hold different ethical beliefs that are equally valid.
- value pluralism
- Liberal pluralism
- conceptual pluralism
Yeah, we really do see the distinction here in frameworks between pluralism and monism.
- Yeah, we really do see the distinction here in frameworks between pluralism and monism.
- But to get at what he means, first we have to introduce this notion of pluralism, more particularly moral pluralism.
Examples
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But to get at what he means, first we have to introduce this notion of pluralism, more particularly moral pluralism.
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Gray cannot consistently argue that value pluralism can do without a moral minimum.
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We should accept a conceptual pluralism in these matters.
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Liberal pluralism is therefore committed to defending the value of individual liberty on two levels.
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Theoretical pluralism is assumed to be an essential feature of all knowledge that claims to be objective.
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Three major views of the state "compete" in modern social science: Marxism, pluralism, and public choice.
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Wallace used the case of religious pluralism in America to illustrate his point.
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The idea of rights is thus consequent to the fact of pluralism and the necessity of a social union.
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Previously, pluralism in American society focused on policy differences that rested on shared democratic values.
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A value pluralism that is informed or constrained by the value of liberty can.
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Antonyms
How Syncretic
- Formal
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pluralism comes from plural ('more than one') and -ism ('a belief or system'). So in philosophy pluralism is the idea that reality is made of many different things rather than just one.