0 the existence of different types of people, who have different beliefs and opinions, within the same society: --
1 the existence of people of different races, religious beliefs, and cultures within the same society, or the belief that this is a good thing: --
Western political theory and philosophy has been concerned with the problem of pluralism in society for centuries.
The community power and pluralism approaches revealed many unresolved questions about power and influence, which eventually led to the decline of the group approach.
Moreover, governments must learn not only to coexist with pluralism but to respect it.
In short, he is committed both to a broad pluralism and a self-evident ethical criterion that can undercut his pluralism.
Increasingly, the dialectic between anthropocentrism and pluralism was revolutionized time and again by stunning discoveries in physics.
Indeed, such emotive approaches to the question of extraterrestrialism are with us still, and so is the religious unease on the question of pluralism.
Here he points out that pluralism, being a novelty, is markedly less conservative than exclusivism (197-198).
The paper concludes with brief review of three leading explanations of why neoclassicism seems to have been supplanted by a new mainstream pluralism.
