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Social Philosophy & Policy | 1994

Is Cultural Pluralism Relevant to Moral Knowledge

Alan Gewirth

Cultural pluralism is both a fact and a norm. It is a fact that our world, and indeed our society, are marked by a large diversity of cultures delineated in terms of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, ideology, and other partly interpenetrating variables. This fact raises the normative question of whether, or to what extent, such diversities should be recognized or even encouraged in policies concerning government, law, education, employment, the family, immigration, and other important areas of social concern.


Synthese | 1983

The rationality of reasonableness

Alan Gewirth

Rationality and reasonableness are often sharply distinguished from one another and are even held to be in conflict. On this construal, rationality consists in means-end calculation of the most efficient means to ones ends (which are usually taken to be self-interested), while reasonableness consists in equitableness whereby one respects the rights of other persons as well as oneself. To deal with this conflict, it is noted that both rationality and reasonableness are based on reason, which is analyzed as the power of attaining truth, and especially necessary truth. It is then shown that, by the rationality involved in reason, the moral principle of reasonableness, the Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC), has a stringently rational justification in that to deny or violate it is to incur self-contradiction. Objections are considered bearing on relevance and motivation. It is concluded that, where reasonableness and egoistic rationality conflict, the former is rationally superior.


Studies in Philosophy and Education | 1994

The moral basis of liberal education

Alan Gewirth

The moral right to liberal education involves issues of distribution and of content. The former issue bears on the distribution of educational resources. The latter issue bears on the issue of multiculturalism. Both issues are discussed from the standpoint of equal rights.


Archive | 1996

The Community of Rights

Alan Gewirth


The Philosophical Quarterly | 1981

Are there any Absolute Rights

Alan Gewirth


Social Philosophy & Policy | 1984

The Epistemology of Human Rights

Alan Gewirth


Philosophy | 1943

Clearness and Distinctness in Descartes

Alan Gewirth


Philosophical Studies | 1988

The justification of morality

Alan Gewirth


Social Philosophy & Policy | 1987

Private Philanthropy and Positive Rights

Alan Gewirth


Mind | 1986

Why Rights are Indispensable

Alan Gewirth

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