Towards a postmodern ethics: Sir Isaiah Berlin and John Caputo

This chapter examines how values influence the heterogeneity of depression. The plurality of values is increasingly significant for contemporary person-centred mental health care with its emphasis on quality of life and development of self-manvnagement skills. Values-based practice is a partner with medical law invn working with the plurality of personal values. The chapter explains what values are, shows how the plurality of values influences the heterogeneity of depression at several levels, and provides an overview of values-based practice. It looks at the resources available for combining values-based practice with medical law in contemporary person-centred care and indicates some of the challenges this raises. It concludes with a brief reflection on these challenges understood as an instance of what the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin called the challenge of pluralism.

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Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries

10.1007/978-3-030-73178-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Johnny Lyons

Keyword(s):

Isaiah Berlin

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Value Pluralism and Monotheism

Politics and Religion ◽

10.1017/s1755048314000595 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 818-840

Author(s):

George Crowder

Keyword(s):

Modern Society ◽

Value Pluralism ◽

Isaiah Berlin ◽

A Value ◽

Religious Accommodation ◽

Pluralist Approach

AbstractHow far can monotheism be reconciled with the pluralism characteristic of modern societies? In this article, I focus on the “value pluralism” of Isaiah Berlin, which I suggest captures a deeper level of plurality than Rawls's more familiar version of pluralism. However, some critics have objected that Berlinian pluralism is too controversial an idea in which to ground liberalism because it is profoundly at odds with the monotheism professed by so many citizens of a modern society. I argue that monotheists can be value pluralists as long as they do not insist that their faith is superior to all others. This pluralist position is exemplified by elements of the interfaith movement, according to which many religions are recognized as having roughly equal value. I also argue that a value-pluralist approach to religious accommodation, if it can be achieved, may be more stable than the uneasy combination of disapproval and restraint involved in the more orthodox solution to conflict among religions, toleration.

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Theoretical Difficulties in the Study of Nationalism

Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume ◽

10.1080/00455091.1997.10716810 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 63-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yael Tamir

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Reasoning ◽

Philosophical Problem ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Isaiah Berlin ◽

Nationalist Discourse ◽

Mathematical Problems ◽

Good And Evil ◽

Philosophical Questions

Philosophical questions are not like empirical problems, which can be answered by observation or experiment or entitlements from them. Nor are they like mathematical problems which can be settled by deductive methods, like problems in chess or any other rule-governed game or procedure. But questions about the ends of life, about good and evil, about freedom and necessity, about objectivity and relativity, cannot be decided by looking into even the most sophisticated dictionary or the use of empirical or mathematical reasoning. Not to know where to look for the answer is the surest symptom of a philosophical problem.Isaiah BerlinCritics of recent philosophical analyses of nationalism suggest that nationalism is a unique social phenomenon that cannot, and need not, be theorized. Are there, indeed, some special features constitutive of nationalism that might defy theorization? Those answering this question in the affirmative point to the plurality and specificity of national experiences, as well as to the emotional and eclectic nature of nationalist discourse.

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Isaiah Berlin

10.1163/9789401202619 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet

Keyword(s):

Isaiah Berlin

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