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Value Pluralism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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The word ‘pluralism’ generally refers to the view that there are many of the things in question (concepts, scientific world views, discourses, viewpoints etc.) The issues arising from there being many differ widely from subject area to subject area. This entry is concerned with moral pluralism—the view that there are many different moral values. Moral value pluralism should be distinguished from political pluralism. Political pluralism, which, like moral value pluralism, is often referred to as ‘value pluralism’, is a view associated with political liberalism. Political pluralism is concerned with the question of what sort of restrictions governments can put on people’s freedom to act according to their values. One version of political pluralism is based on moral value pluralism, claiming that there are irreducibly plural moral values and that this justifies a liberal political system. (See Isaiah Berlin 1969; George Crowder 2002, 2019; William Galston 2002, and for a more detailed dis

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