The challenge of

Globalization,
Pluralism, and
Fundamentalism
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MORAL AGAINST
Pluralism Moral Pluralism

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Pluralism

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 MORAL PLURALISM
• Known as ethical pluralism and value pluralism
• It implies that there are some values which may be
equally correct and fundamental, and yet in conflict
with each other.
• It is a metaethical theory

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 • He was a naturalized British philosopher,
historian of ideas, political theorist, educator,
public intellectual and moralist, and essayist.
• First to popularize a considerable work
describing the theory of objective value
pluralism

Isaiah Berlin
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AGAINST
Moral Pluralism

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 AGAINST MORAL
• PLURALISM
Not immune to valid criticisms
• Fails to stipulate what to do when two or more of its
values or theories indicate inconsistent practical
imperatives.
• Moral pluralism leaves us either:
a) There is no real solution to ethical dilemma
b) All possible answers are acceptable as long as they have
underlying fundamental values.

• Moral pluralism is untenable

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 GLOBALIZATION
World-wide
integration of
government
policies, cultures,
social movements,
and financial Trans-nationalization of
markets the connections taking Increasing trans-
place in the world border or
transnational
relations

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 Some Poblems
with
Globalization
● It uses up finite resources more quickly
● It increases world carbon dioxide
emissions
● It makes it virtually impossible for
regulators in one country to foresee the
worldwide implications of their actions

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 Some Poblems
with
Globalization
● It acts to increase world oil prices
● It transfers consumption of limited oil
supply from developed countries to
developing countries
● It transfers jobs from developed countries
to less developed countries

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 Some Poblems
with
Globalization
● It transfers investment spending from
developed countries to less developed
countries
● With the dollar as the world’s reserve
currency, it leads to huge US balance of
trade deficits and other imbalances

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 Some Poblems
with
Globalization
● It tends to move taxation away from
corporations, and onto individual citizens
● It sets up a currency “race to the bottom”,
with each other country trying to get an
export advantage by dropping the value
of its currency

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 Some Poblems
with
Globalization
● It encourages dependence on other
countries for essential goods and services
● It ties countries together, so that if one
collapses, it is more likely to ripple
through the system, pulling many other
countries with it

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 FUNDAMENTALISM
It typically has a
religious It has It is not only a
connotation that developed all phenomenon of
indicates over the world religions, but
unwavering along with the also of political
attachment to a extension of and ideological
set of irreducible globalization world views.
beliefs

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