BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T045642Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120403T181500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120403T201500 SUMMARY:A Third Face for Liberalism? UID:20260604T084411Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Old Quad\, University of Melbourne\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: In \;Two Faces of Liberalism \;John Gray argues for value pluralism &ndash\; the thesis that the human good is fundamentally plural &ndash\; and claims that liberalism should abandon the hope of achieving rational consensus about the good society\, and instead focus on arranging a workable \;modus vivendi \;among incommensurable ways of life. \; \;I endorse Gray&rsquo\;s claim that rational consensus is unachievable\, but resist his calls for a \;modus vivendi. \; \;I claim that what our ethical experience reveals is not an irreconcilable plurality of goods\, but rather our own limitations before an idea of the good without which we cannot function as moral actors. \; \;Further\, a political \;modus vivendi \;of the kind Gray advocates must inevitably shut down dialogue\; and finally\, there \;may be \;a third way of conceiving liberalism\, which seeks neither rational consensus nor \;modus vivendi\, but rather sees humans as engaged in a shared\, ongoing search for the good.

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