Plural and Conflicting Values

Download or read book Plural and Conflicting Values written by Michael Stocker and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. This book rejects this view. The author first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting values. This includes a full discussion of Aristotle's treatment of the issues. He then goes on to show that plurality and conflict are commonplace and generally unproblematic features of our everyday choice and action, and that they do allow for a sound and rational ethic.