By clarifying the ways in which genuine agreement on moral issues can be pursued through moral discourse, Vokey provides a coherent conceptual framework for addressing the political, social, and environmental problems arising from unresolved moral conflict. This volume will interest those engaged in moral and political philosophy, conflict resolution, philosophy of education, and those involved in cross-cultural conversations among Western and Eastern philosophies.

How shall we collectively confront the global problems we face? In Moral Discourse in a Pluralistic World, Daniel Vokey argues that it is possible for people from very different religious, political, philosophical, and cultural traditions to talk productively about the issues that divide them.

Vokey refutes moral scepticism--the pervasive belief that conflict is impossible to resolve in a rational way--by confronting two kinds of relativist arguments: that we cannot understand the positions of people whose perspectives are incommensurable with our own and that moral values are...