ABSTRACT
In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to address the issue of how ethical discourse is even possible in a world of religious, cultural and ideological differences. In our current era, we have witnessed scholars, policy makers and the public alike all attempting to enact various forms of interfaith, intercultural and inter-ideological dialogue as ways of either fostering understanding or ameliorating the tensions that exist between different moral points of view. Although a multiplicity of moral communities exists in our global society, each with its own unique moral language, this moral diversity does not necessarily preclude the possibility of moral dialogue and mutual understanding. Recognizing the array of moral languages being spoken in our global society, it will be argued that sound agreements as well as reasonable disagreements will only be possible once we have come to a sufficient understanding of one another’s ethico-epistemic paradigms and that such an understanding is a prerequisite for asserting a conclusive verdict on the nature of moral diversity.
