ABSTRACT
A Polish philosopher Mieczyslaw A. Krapiec claims that the richness of philosophical questions and insights, diverse, always boils down, one way or another, to issues pertaining to the monism and pluralism debate – which is as old as philosophy itself. In philosophy, one would hardly object anymore to the fact of value and cultural pluralism or pluralism in science. Looking at the normative layer of sustainability economics, as a science for a sustainable society, touches upon various facets of the philosophical questions. In many ways, the monism/pluralism dichotomy is no different in economics than in other disciplines although there are shifts in discussion from issues such as the acceptance of pluralism and its consequences to more subtle questions of, for example, what pluralism implies. A part of recasting and operationalizing pluralism is the development of an understanding of the normative aspects of economics.
