“The dream of the 18th century was that a single, coherent set of values, rooted in rationality, could make a heaven on Earth,” UC Berkeley philosopher Alison Gopnik writes. “But more-recent philosophers . . . sobered by the 20th century’s failed utopias, have argued for a more modest liberal pluralism that makes room for multiple, genuinely conflicting goods. Family and work, solidarity and autonomy, tradition and innovation are really valuable, and really in tension, in both the lives of individuals and the life of a nation. One challenge for enlightenment now is to build social institutions
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