Vico and Montesquieu: Limits of Pluralist Imagination

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• Philosophy and Pluralism For a critical discussion of moral monism, see my ‘Moral Philosophy and Its Anti-pluralist Bias’ in ed. David Archard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Although moral and cultural pluralism are closely related and often overlap, they are distinct. The former refers to the view that the good life can be lived in several equally legitimate ways, the latter to the view that human life and its constituent activities and relationships can be given different and equally plausible meaning and significance.
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