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CIAO DATE: 03/02
Critical Review
Pluralism after Liberalism?
By Pratap B. Mehta
Abstract
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 a modus 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.