pluralism
English
Etymology
Noun
pluralism (countable and uncountable, plural pluralisms)
- The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
- (ecclesiastical) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
- (sociology) A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual cultural identities.
- 2007, Matthias Koenig with Paul F. A. Guchteneire, Unesco, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies, page 251:
- Instead, it is more probable that globalization is leading to a plurality of pluralisms.
- (philosophy) The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
- 2006, Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet, Isaiah Berlin: A Value Pluralist and Humanist View of Human Nature and the Meaning of Live, →ISBN:
- Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not brin us closer to a higher telos in history.
- 2016, Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science is So Successful, page 217:
- Pluralism is a creative force because it admits of multiple ways to see a thing, multiple valuable paths to choose from.
Synonyms
- (ecclesiastical): plurality
Related terms
Translations
quality or state of being plural
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state of pluralist
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social system with multiple cultural identities
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References
- “pluralism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Guy Ankerl: Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bhrati, Chinese, and Western. INUPress, Geneva, 2000 →ISBN