Journal Articles

Pluralism After Liberalism

Pratap Bhanu Mehta
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA

Critical Review

January 1, 1997

John Gray argues that the doctrine of value pluralism poses a serious challenge for liberalisms of the Rawlsian and Millian kind. The only proper political doctrine that is compatible with value pluralism is amodus vivendi that can take various forms. But in truth, value pluralism does little to diminish the appeal of liberalism. Under modern conditions, any half‐decent modus vivendi will look more like liberalism than Gray supposes.

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