Moral Value Pluralism

 

What is Pluralism? - PHILO-notes

 

The following are articles from Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Value pluralism - Wikipedia
• Value Pluralism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)*

* We will base our discussion on the article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy above. 

Related topics

Axiology, the study of value and valuation, is related to this topic.  The following articles in Wikipedia discuss axiology:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values_(Western_philosophy)
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_theory
  
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory/

Some questions on Value Pluralism 

1. Why do people have different values?
2. Are there some core values that all people or all living things share?
3. Are there right and wrong or better and worse values or value systems?
4. If so, how does one decide which are the right or better values?
5. When there are conflicting values, how should we make good decisions?