Diversity and Decency
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Beata Polanowska-Sygulska
Abstract
George Crowder’s article makes an interesting contribution to the literature on value pluralism. Yet, as a commentary onmy essay (Polanowska-Sygulska, 2019c) it is entirely misconceived. Crowder’s reading of my text is inadequate, in terms of both the legal and the philosophical aspects of my argument. Having ascribed to me the belief that pluralism always favors cultural diversity against legal uniformity (a belief which I do nothold), he argues that a single uniform law may engender more value diversity than a multiplicity of local legal systems. This may indeed be so, but it is notmy concern. What Isaiah Berlin aimed at more than anything else was to bring about a decent society, which at times requires the pursuit of other values to be limited. I share his approach and therefore argue that, for the sake of decency, both value diversity and cultural diversity may sometimes need to be restricted.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- 10.1515/auk-2020-toc
- Editorial
- Focus: Experiments on Social Norms
- Social Norms in Experimental Economics: Towards a Unified Theory of Normative Decision Making
- Economic and Sociological Accounts of Social Norms
- Incentivized Measurement of Social Norms Using Coordination Games
- Distributive Justice in the Lab: Testing the Binding Role of Agreement
- Equality and Merit. Through Experiments to Normative Justice
- General Part
- Moral Progress: Improvement of Moral Concepts, Refinements of Moral Motivation
- Habermas’s Politics of Rational Freedom: Navigating the History of Philosophy between Faith and Knowledge
- Luck Egalitarianism and Relational Egalitarianism: An Internal Tension in Cohen’s Theory of Justice
- Discussion
- Diversity and Decency
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- 10.1515/auk-2020-toc
- Editorial
- Focus: Experiments on Social Norms
- Social Norms in Experimental Economics: Towards a Unified Theory of Normative Decision Making
- Economic and Sociological Accounts of Social Norms
- Incentivized Measurement of Social Norms Using Coordination Games
- Distributive Justice in the Lab: Testing the Binding Role of Agreement
- Equality and Merit. Through Experiments to Normative Justice
- General Part
- Moral Progress: Improvement of Moral Concepts, Refinements of Moral Motivation
- Habermas’s Politics of Rational Freedom: Navigating the History of Philosophy between Faith and Knowledge
- Luck Egalitarianism and Relational Egalitarianism: An Internal Tension in Cohen’s Theory of Justice
- Discussion
- Diversity and Decency
