ABSTRACT
Societies that recognize the value of diversity inculcate toleration, and encourage prospects of dialogue. A dialogue on what the common norms of a polity should be can aid the establishment of the moral status of these norms, and thereby render them binding, for one main reason. The concept of pluralism, which emerged in distinct opposition to philosophical monism, disputes the idea that it is possible to privilege only one value system as either the source of all values, or as a master value against which other values can be ranked. The philosophical roots of normative pluralism have been articulated famously by Isaiah Berlin. Indeed, his formulations have laid out the parameter of the debate. In contrast to empirical pluralism where values are subjectively constituted, normative pluralism denotes objectively constituted values, that is, there are certain things that are good for human beings whatever they happen to believe.
