This course examines the nature, assumptions and implications of value pluralism, the belief that there are many final, equally reasonably goods and moral ends, something widely thought to be one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Contemporary debates and accounts of pluralism will be examines (eg. Berlin, Hampshire, Raz, Kekes, Mouffe, Galston, Gray, Taylor, Kymlicka), and their applicability in a number of particular cases and contexts will be explored. Format: seminar. Requirements: three (5-page) papers. Prerequisite: previous course in political theory or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 24. Priority given to Political Science majors. Political Theory Subfield

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