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    Joseph Raz's account treats incommensurability as agent-r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The indifference relation generated by incommensurability is intransitive

    Joseph Raz's account treats incommensurability as agent-relative value pluralism, where no single metric governs comparison across value dimensions.

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    • 1.Empirically, agents genuinely cannot rank all values on a single scale without distorting their character (e.g., justice vs. mercy).
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    • 2.If incommensurability is real, agent-relative pluralism better explains why rational people disagree on value trade-offs than monist frameworks.
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    • 3.Raz's account preserves moral seriousness: values retain independent force rather than dissolving into utilitarian calculation.
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    • 1.Agent-relative pluralism risks collapsing into subjectivism, making value disagreements irresolvable rather than genuinely incommensurable.
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    • 2.If no metric governs comparison, we cannot explain why some choices are objectively worse (e.g., slavery) across different agent perspectives.
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    • 3.The claim requires showing incommensurability is metaphysically real, not merely epistemic—Raz provides limited argument for this stronger thesis.
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