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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Philosophy of History: A Value-pluralist Response
Contributor:
Crowder, George
imprint:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017
Published in:Analyse & Kritik
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/auk-2017-0014
ISSN:
2365-9858;
0171-5860
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>Vittorio Hösle’s evaluation of the Soviet Revolution on the ground of the philosophy of history can be usefully examined from the value-pluralist perspective of Isaiah Berlin. Although Berlinwould agree with most ofHösle’s judgements on the Revolution, he would do so for very different reasons. Most importantly, Berlin would not accept the teleology that lies at the heart of the philosophy of history. For Berlin, the notion of a human <jats:italic>telos </jats:italic>to be realized at the end of history is a species of moral monism, and so falsified, indeed rendered incoherent, by the deeply pluralist reality of human values. However, Berlin’s pluralism also seems to present a problem for the justification of liberalism, and I consider a range of responses to this difficulty.</jats:p>