Liberal Pluralism Between Monism and Diversity

Abstract

In this chapter, I continue to examine the major challenges to my ac-count of liberal pluralism that have thus far emerged. These include claims, first, that my conception of liberal pluralism is inferior to rival un-derstandings of liberalism that also rest, as mine does, on value pluralism; second, that value pluralism makes impossible any foundational or " com-prehensive " liberal theory; third, that liberal pluralism is incompatible with democracy; and, finally, that value pluralism arbitrarily rules out the central claims of monotheism.