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31Family Values and Same-Sex MarriagePhilosophy in the Contemporary World 16 (1): 55-65. 2009.Alain Locke, an often neglected classical American Pragmatist, developed a pluralistic value theory as an antidote to the "value absolutism" he considered the root cause of social conflict. Values, for Locke, are not immutable features of a transcendent reality, but rather emerge from human functional attitudes, or what he calls "feeling-modes." However incommensurable the contextualized values of diverse cultures may appear, they can always be traced back to common modes of valuing. Recognizing…Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
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Philosophy of the Americas |