The agony of choice : Isaiah Berlin and the phenomenology of conflict
By: NIEUWENBURG, Paul
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2004Administration & Society 35, 6, p. 683-700Abstract: Moral pluralism is fashionable. Hoewver, the implications of moral pluralism for the investment on agent is prepared to make in his practical thinking are pontentiall self-defeating. In the public realm, with its added responsability, an examination of these implications is all the more important. This article argues that the shall only be in a position to subscribe to pluralism in practice if certain moral dispositions, such as the virtues, are already in place. Pluralism requires responsibly choosing, but this presupposes the courage or the truthfulness not to recoil form apparently rationaly insoluble moral conflict
Moral pluralism is fashionable. Hoewver, the implications of moral pluralism for the investment on agent is prepared to make in his practical thinking are pontentiall self-defeating. In the public realm, with its added responsability, an examination of these implications is all the more important. This article argues that the shall only be in a position to subscribe to pluralism in practice if certain moral dispositions, such as the virtues, are already in place. Pluralism requires responsibly choosing, but this presupposes the courage or the truthfulness not to recoil form apparently rationaly insoluble moral conflict
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