"Moral pluralism is a very difficult position to defend, and, speaking for the defense, I think it matters a lot precisely how it gets argued...any sustained defense of moral pluralism in criticism of a universalistic formulation like Kohlbergs' is probably going to have to justify a cognitive pluralism of beliefs, e.g. the Christian acceptance of evil as a universal force coexisting with the Buddhist rejection of evil as a universal source"¹⁴.

If all I have been taught up to now is open to questions, especially to my question, then my sense of who is responsible shifts radically from outside to me. But I see too that my questions and my answers are likewise open to question. Yet if I am not to spend my life in questions about questions and am to act, choose, decide and live, on what basis am I to do it?¹⁵