For precisely this kind of banal disparagement of the normative virtues of the intellect (its acknowledgement of the inevitable plurality of moral claims; the rights it accords, alongside passion, to tentativeness and detachment) is also one of the roots of fascism — what I was trying to expose in my argument about Riefenstahl.
In order to prevent such fissures, Spinoza puts forth a universal or civil religion that captures the moral core of a plurality of faiths, to which all citizens can subscribe irrespective of what other private beliefs they hold (14, 182 3).
Some philosophers claim that ethical pluralism (the view that there is an irreducible plurality of basic moral principles, and that there is no strict priority of any one principle over another) is an essential feature of intuitionist thought, but not all intuitionists are pluralists, e.g., Sidgwick and Moore, so this feature will not be discussed here.
If Maimonides is right, there can be no plurality of faculties, moral dispositions, or essential attributes in God.
The best explanation of Broad's praise is that the book presents a unique and compelling form of deontology, according to which there are a plurality of both moral requirements and intrinsic goods.
This "empathy" is universally shared not only because it is humanly recognizable but mainly because it constitutes a moral standpoint for human interactive plurality.
According to both Reid and Ross, there is instead a plurality of self-evident moral first principles, none of which is reducible to another.
It is also true that 13 states this year passed state referendums banning gay marriage in most cases by larger majorities than Mr Bush managed and that a plurality of American voters put "moral values" at the top of their list of concerns.A moral majority?
Armed with an account of the main convictions of common-sense morality, Ross attacked ideal utilitarianism and Kantianism, though ideal utilitarianism, the view that the only basic moral requirement is to maximally promote a plurality of intrinsic goods, was his main opponent.[1] Ross's basic complaint about his rivals is that each, in a different way, 'over-simplifies the moral life' (FE 189).
It's our "shared human horizon" which avoids moral anarchy and relativism while acknowledging the plurality of modes of being human.
