If Iraq is going to be made to work as a decent, pluralistic, self-governing entity, noted the Iraq expert Amatzia Baram of the United States Institute of Peace, all the key factions there will have to accept being "reasonably unhappy".
Learning to live in a pluralistic world requires that kind of self-assuredness and self-knowledge.
Hardwig, John, "Privacy, Self-knowledge, and Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation to the Epistemology of the Family", in Feminism and Families, Nelson, Hilde Lindemann (ed)., New York: Routledge, 1997.
Both schools are pluralistic (also with regard to individual selves) and theistic.
If neither approach works, remind your colleague that in our pluralistic society, invoking God for narrow self-interest in a distinctly secular setting is a practice customarily reserved for winners of a Grammy.
Just as passive observers do not receive the full benefit of an interactive, participative world-wide web (web 2.0), individuals must be transformed from ethnocentric worldviews and myopic thinking (Self 1.0) to individuals with pluralistic worldviews and layered, nuance thinking styles (Self 2.0).
While the plethora of PES design perspectives often follow the concepts of efficiency and effectiveness, they seldom relate to pluralistic value systems and may disparage local self-determination for influencing the form and terms of negotiation.
Ultimately, the interviews illustrate that within the context of a pluralistic and often fragmented system, involving significant self-management, there may be key distinctions between professional and lay foci on care.
Some detractors generously call for a pluralistic approach; others regarded the crisis over the self as overblown; most agree that immune selfhood is increasingly a polymorphous and ill-defined construct, but immunology has made good heuristic use of it (e.g., Howes 2011; Hoffman 2012).
Everything in this pluralistic sampler of more than two dozen small works is a self-portrait, though some pieces stretch the definition.
We go to college to learn to get along in a pluralistic society without permitting a "politics of difference" and persistent pursuit of self-interest to destroy democracy.
