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Pluralism

Pluralism, in philosophy and metaphysics, is the position that reality is comprised of a multiplicity (two or more) of aspects that independently exist as separate and non-overlapping causal or intellectual domains, or principles. In other words, reality is relative to the interaction of independently existing principles. Pluralism is opposed to conceptions of Monism [Absolutism], or the ultimate unity of all things and causes of things.

Versions of dualistic pluralism have been espoused by ancient Hindu philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes. More pluralistic views of reltive value have been refined by later thinkers in application to Post-Modernism in philosophy, epistemology, ethics, morality, education, economics and sociology.

Web Resources On Pluralism

Pluralism; New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Philosophical Pluralism
Metaphysical Pluralism in Wikipedia

Book Resources On Pluralism

Philosophy and Pluralism by Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
Pluralism by William E. Connoly

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