2019/01/01 by Kimberly Hutchings
Social Sciences · #African cultural and philosophical studies #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Political Philosophy and Ethics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0892679419000169
openalex publication_date 2019/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Abstract This essay examines the idea of the pluriverse as one response to recent calls for the decolonization of international and global ethics. It argues that taking pluriversality seriously challenges prevailing understandings of global ethics as the acquisition and application of moral expertise. Instead of aiming to know the meaning of global justice and then apply it to particular contexts, a pluriversal ethics addresses the question of how to cultivate a practical ethic of coexistence and collaboration with others in an ontologically plural and radically hierarchical world.