Word: pluralist
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...that kind of argument, Murray may be counted on. At present, he sees not even a "common universe of discourse." The various groups in the pluralist society do not share one another's premises or vocabulary so that only confusion, not real disagreement, results: "Disagreement is not an easy thing to reach." If anyone can help U.S. Catholics and their non-Catholic countrymen toward the disagreement that precedes understanding-John Courtney Murray...
Public or Private Values. Cohen defends both Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism against the secularist charges that they are incompatible with democracy; just because one's neighbor holds different religious opinions, says Cohen, is no reason to accuse him of being disloyal to a pluralist, democratic society. Clancy, on the other hand, attacks those Catholics who are trying to "impose on the public values that, in this time and place, have become private values," as is often the case in censorship fights. Such Catholics, says Clancy, "act as though the last few centuries had never happened." Both Clancy and Cohen...