abhor and reject. Perhaps one could put it another way: it
would take a supreme arrogance to discount this possibility
a priori.
There is perhaps after all a moral issue here. We only need
a sense of our own limited part in the whole human story to
accept the presumption. It is only arrogance, or some analogous
moral failing, that can deprive us of this. But what the
presumption requires of us is not peremptory and inauthentic
judgments of equal value, but a willingness to be open to
comparative cultural study of the kind that must displace our
horizons in the resulting fusions. What it requires above all
is an admission that we are very far away from that ultimate
horizon from which the relative worth of different cultures
might be evident. This would mean breaking with an illusion
that still holds many “multiculturalists”—as well as their
most bitter opponents—in its grip.