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A complete ethic should address the question of how people are to act toward one another when they are in serious moral disagreement. 1 Some recent attempts to address the question have endorsed the idea of accommodating moral differences. I shall argue that their conceptions of accommodation are inadequate or incomplete, and that a more adequate conception must discuss the problem of how people in moral conflict are to live with one another. I shall explain how accommodation is a moral value rooted in the fact that serious conflict is a regular feature of our ethical lives, involving people with whom continuing relationships are both necessary and desirable. We already have in practice strategies of accommodation that constitute our practical commitment to this value. What we have lacked is the philosophical commitment to articulating and defending it. ## RECENT CONCEPTIONS OF ACCOMMODATING MORAL DIFFERENCES Thomas Nagel has argued for restraint in the coercive exercise of political power when one is engaged in a particular kind of intractable moral conflict. This liberal principle of tolerance gains support from the contractualist idea that one should not impose arrangements, ins

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Author

David B. Wong

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences