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Article: Can Cultures be Judged? Two Defenses of Cultural Pluralism in Isaiah Berlin's Work(*).
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- December 22, 1999
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MY contention is that in Isaiah Berlin's work there are abundant elements for two defenses of radical cultural pluralism, even though he does not distinguish them. One is the aesthetic defense; the other is the anti-universalist defense. I begin with the aesthetic defense, which is not often discussed. I grant that I have assembled the aesthetic elements from various portions of Berlin's work, and do not deny that Berlin himself may have dismissed my attribution and thought that I had taken improper interpretative liberties with his work.
I should say at the beginning that my view is that the best case for cultural pluralism is that which sees it as the ...
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