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Explain Berlin’s notion of value pluralism.

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Isaiah Berlin built his political philosophy against monism, the conviction running from Plato to the Enlightenment and Karl Marx that every genuine moral question has one true answer and that all true answers fit together. Value pluralism denies this. In "The Pursuit of the Ideal" (1988) Berlin defined it as the view that there are…

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