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We have to make choices, sometimes tragic choices between values.

There's a clash between liberty and equality for example.

If people are free to deploy the talents they have

to pursue any profession they wish, any life they wish,

then some inequality is inevitable.

So we have to balance one value against another. That in any

case is how many philosophers think about values. But Ronald D'Warkin, one of the

most significant political and legal theorists of the past half century

believes that's quite the wrong account. Values do not clash. There's a unity to value.

Ronald Hawking, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you.

The topic we're going to focus on is the unity of value.

What is that?

Well, it's several things. It's mainly the position that rejects a very popular idea now,

popular in political rhetoric, popular in academic philosophy, which is called pluralism.

Pluralism, again there are many different kinds of it,

but the pluralism that I worry about,

it's the pluralism that says values are not consistent with one another.

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