ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the pluralism which is usually tails into three categories. These are cultural or national pluralism, moral or value pluralism and structural difference in such areas as class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender and race. These structural differences are said to lead to pluralism of the first two types. In this characterisation of types of pluralism, the chapter discusses with those categories that are of interest in political philosophy and political theory. Feminists have argued that significant cultural, moral and political assumptions which in fact apply only to men have been presented as though they are universal truths. An argument put by cultural pluralists is that upheld by communitarians and now accepted by many liberals, against the 'atomistic' view of the self. A weak argument in favour of the moral pluralist view is simply that it is a fact of life - moral pluralism is an inevitable feature of a large, complex, highly populated world.
