Later on, the debate moved on to fundamental philosophical questions about what human morality involves, and whether or not we would be able to reach enough consensus to transcend our current pluralistic moral reality.
More so than the white-collar urbanites who are finding acceptance in an increasingly pluralistic world, they rely on the law to designate the parameters of their daily reality.
In its place he adopted a new, pluralistic realism.
Essays in a Pluralistic Art World.
Hence, it isn't clear that exclusivists can't justifiably reject Hick's contention that a pluralistic cultural/religious interpretation of reality must inevitably be considered superior.
William James in A Pluralistic Universe refuses to constrict reality to that which is defined by by logic or language, or to human conceptions.
(For another pluralistic approach to realism, see Pettit 1991).
According to the pluralistic hypothesis, the great world faiths embody different perceptions and conceptions of one reality that Hick christens "the Real".
On the contrary, as a more people understand the world in pluralistic, fluid (some might argue relativistic) terms, such vocal opposition seems increasingly out of step with reality.
