David B. Wong is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. In this presentation, he suggests an alternative to the idea of finding substantive, action-guiding moral principles that would serve as the basis of a global order. Such principles would be ones held in common by the differing specific and substantive moral norms and practices that make up different ways of life. To garner sufficient consensus these principles will have to be general and sufficiently vague to elide important conflicts and tensions between values, but to meet the enormous challenges we face on a global level today, we must deal with those conflicts and tensions.