The propagandists come across as a credible threat to a secular, pluralistic way of life that far too many of us, apparently, take for granted.
Contemporary Canadians are inclined to favour orderly central government and a sense of community over individualism; in international affairs, they are more likely to serve the role of peacemaker instead of warrior, and, whether at home or abroad, they are likely to have a pluralistic way of viewing the world.
Feminist philosophy, instead, calls for a pluralistic way of thinking, noting that there are many consistent sets of truths about the world.
Islamophobia, which is becoming a social cancer, must be recognized and be as unacceptable as anti-Semitism, a threat to the very fabric of our democratic pluralistic way of life.
He's interested in history as a sort of secular religion that can unify a society in a pluralistic way.
Therefore, Constanza suggested the importance of measuring the relationship between ecosystems and the economy in a pluralistic way.
From a very early age, we are asked to recall facts, to support our statements, to string together arguments, to anticipate counter-arguments, to make decisions, and, if our teachers and parents are sufficiently sensitive to the ways of our pluralistic society, to remain respectful towards those who disagree with us.
A more pluralistic and tolerant way of thinking, Rorty claims, should replace the monistic viewpoint of religion and science.
Certainly, there are differences between the approaches of basic and applied research, but are they mutually exclusive, as in a paradigm shift, or complementary ways of knowing, as in a pluralistic version of epistemology?
Brennan & Pettit (1990, 326)("if the vote is unveiled the desire for social acceptance will play a larger role in your decision as to how to vote; and in a pluralistic society the surest way of winning social acceptance will be to vote in a way that you can discursively support") (see 1990, 332 as well).
