Ethics and Values / Unit 7 Ethics 327 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Value Pluralism
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The idea
Value pluralism holds that several distinct things are intrinsically valuable — liberty, equality, knowledge, love — and no single currency converts between them.
In practice
A council trading park land for housing is not converting units of one good; the trade crosses two currencies, which is why it hurts.
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