Incommensurable Values

When liberal Anti-Racism becomes your "highest value"...

The problem with moral hierarchies and intersectionality

Isaiah Berlin was once asked to provide an endorsement for the published proceedings of a conference on this pluralist view of human values. In his response he wrote: ‘I have for many years thought the problem of the incommensurability, and still more the incompatibility, of some values to be central to all ethical, social, political and aesthetic issues.’