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Equality for Inegalitarians

Author : George Sher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060667
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Equality for Inegalitarians written by George Sher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice. Unlike luck egalitarians, who treat unchosen differences in people's circumstances as sources of unjust inequality to be overcome, Sher views such differences as pervasive and unavoidable features of the human situation. Appealing to an original account of what makes us moral equals, he argues that our interest in successfully negotiating life's ever-shifting contingencies is more basic than our interest in achieving any more specific goals. He argues, also, that the state's obligation to promote this interest supports a principled version of the view that what matters about resources, opportunity, and other secondary goods is only that each person have enough. The book opens up a variety of new questions, and offers a distinctive new perspective for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, and for those interested in distributive justice and luck egalitarianism.

Equality for Inegalitarians

Author : George Sher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110700957X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage

Author : Alexander Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079012
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage written by Alexander Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major scholars assess G. A. Cohen's contribution to the debate on the nature of egalitarian justice.

Democracy After Virtue

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190671238
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Democracy After Virtue written by Sungmoon Kim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? In this book, Sungmoon Kim lays out a normative theory of Confucian democracy--pragmatic Confucian democracy--to address questions of the right to political participation, instrumental and intrinsic values of democracy, democratic procedure and substance, punishment and criminal justice, social and economic justice, and humanitarian intervention. Kim shows us that the question is not so much about the compatibility of Confucianism and democracy, but of how the two systems can benefit from each other.

Left and Right

Author : Norberto Bobbio
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509514104
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Left and Right written by Norberto Bobbio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten. In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two centuries since the French Revolution, has continuing relevance today. Bobbio explores the grounds of this elusive distinction and argues that Left and Right are ultimately divided by different attitudes to equality. He carefully defines the nature of equality and inequality in relative rather than absolute terms. Left and Right is a timely and persuasively argued account of the basic parameters of political action and debate in the modern world - parameters which have remained constant despite the pace of social change. The book will be widely read and, as in Italy, it will have an impact far beyond the academic domain.

Why Inequality Matters

Author : Shlomi Segall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107129818
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Why Inequality Matters written by Shlomi Segall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and defends the view that inequality is intrinsically bad when and because it leads to arbitrary disadvantage.

Equality Renewed

Author : Christine Sypnowich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315458322
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Equality Renewed written by Christine Sypnowich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a good life. Inequality is a social ill because of the damage it does to human flourishing: unequal distribution of wealth can have the effect that some people are poorly housed, badly nourished, ill-educated, unhappy or uncultured, among other things. When we seek to make people more equal our concern is not just resources or property, but how people fare under one distribution or another. Ultimately, the best answer to the question, ‘equality of what?,’ is some conception of flourishing, since whatever policies or principles we adopt, it is flourishing that we hope will be more equal as a result of our endeavours. Sypnowich calls for both retrieval and innovation. What is to be retrieved is the ideal of equality itself, which is often assumed as a background condition of theories of justice, yet at the same time, dismissed as too homogenising, abstract and rigid a criterion for political argument. We must retrieve the ideal of equality as a central political principle. In doing so, she casts doubt on the value of focussing on cultural difference, and rejects the idea of neutrality that dominates contemporary political philosophy in favour of a view of the state as enabling the betterment of its citizens.

George Orwell

Author : Peter Brian Barry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197627404
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book George Orwell written by Peter Brian Barry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Orwell is sometimes read as being disinterested in if not outright hostile to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell said things of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of his corpus, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While he is often read as a humanist, egalitarian, and socialist, too little attention has been paid to the nuanced versions of those doctrines that he endorsed and to those philosophical sympathies that led him to embrace them. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first monograph written by a philosopher that offers a reading of Orwell informed by historical and contemporary philosophy and promises to better our understanding of him and his work"--

Justice, Luck, and Knowledge

Author : Susan L. Hurley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017702
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Justice, Luck, and Knowledge written by Susan L. Hurley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice.

Why Does Inequality Matter?

Author : Thomas Scanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198812698
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Why Does Inequality Matter? written by Thomas Scanlon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. He considers the nature and importance of equality of opportunity, whether the pursuit of greater equality involves objectionable interference with individual liberty, and whether the rich can be said to deserve their greater rewards.

The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice

Author : Serena Olsaretti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571044
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice written by Serena Olsaretti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy in recent decades: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute fairly the benefits and burdens of social cooperation? Thirty-two leading figures from philosophy and political theory present specially written critical assessments of the state of research on a broad range of questions about distributive justice. The first seventeen chapters examine different views of distributive justice and its role in political philosophy, and consider some key methodological questions facing theorists of justice. The remaining fifteen chapters investigate questions about the implementation of distributive justice with regard to a range of aspects of society, including gender, race, the family, education, work, health, language, migration, and climate change. This Oxford Handbook will be a rich and authoritative resource for anyone working on theories of justice.

One Another's Equals

Author : Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978846
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book One Another's Equals written by Jeremy Waldron and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening inquiry into the nature of human equality reveals the vital importance of this basic Western principle—“an important new book” (Robert B. Reich, New York Times Book Review). An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another’s equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a subtle and multifaceted account of the basis for the West’s commitment to human equality. Waldron argues that there is no single characteristic that serves as the basis of equality. Instead, the case for moral equality rests on four capacities that all humans have the potential to possess in some degree: reason, autonomy, moral agency, and the ability to love. But how should we regard the differences that people display on these various dimensions? Waldron, who has specialized in the nature of equality for many years, confronts these questions and others fully and unflinchingly. Based on the Gifford Lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2015, One Another’s Equals takes Waldron’s thinking further and deeper than ever before.

How Can We Be Equals?

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192699318
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book How Can We Be Equals? written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That all human beings are one another's moral equals is taken by many to be the fundamental premise of contemporary moral, political and legal theory. It is also the demand of individuals and groups to be treated as equals that drives much of political practice and protest today. However, what does such a claim of 'basic equality' between human beings mean? How can it possibly be true, given that we are unequals in almost every other aspect of our lives? And, who, exactly, is meant to fall within its scope? This volume brings together leading thinkers on basic equality to address these questions. Collectively, they explore the concept of equality in history and criticism, analysing and presenting solutions to the most pressing challenges that have been raised against the principle.

A Wild West of the Mind

Author : George Sher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197564674
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book A Wild West of the Mind written by George Sher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip through someone else's mind would not be a pleasant journey. Even if you did not stumble across anything truly abhorrent, you could hardly avoid a good deal of ugly thoughts - hostile attitudes towards friends, negative stereotypes of groups, plenty of contempt, and a whole host ofshocking fantasies. But what is our moral relationship to our ideas? Are we justified in morally condemning ugly thoughts? In A Wild West of the Mind, George Sher argues for the provocative thesis that the realm of the purely mental is a "morality-free zone." Within that realm, no thoughts orattitudes are forbidden or required. Morality properly constrains our actions in a world full of others, but in a sense, our thoughts are off-limits-each person's individual subjectivity is boundless.Sher begins by arguing against a reigning assumption in much of moral philosophy that morality has a bearing not only on how we act, but also on what we think and feel. On Sher's view, we cannot subject private thoughts to moral evaluation or constraint precisely because they are confined to themental sphere. Actions are morally condemnable when they do harm to others; by definition, though it may motivate a harmful action, a thought in itself cannot do harm. This does not mean, of course, that our mental states are not subject to any evaluations whatsoever. Our beliefs can be irrationaland our desires can be vicious, reflecting badly on our character, but we cannot say they are "wrong" or impermissible as such. From here, Sher presents a positive defense of "free thought," one that posits that constraining our mental lives with moral proscriptions poses a severe threat to ourmental freedom, one that can significantly impoverish our lives. Broad in scope and tightly argued, this book will have much to offer philosophers working in ethics, free will, and epistemology.

G. A. Cohen

Author : Christine Sypnowich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509529969
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book G. A. Cohen written by Christine Sypnowich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice, and equality, but for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism. Christine Sypnowich guides readers through the rich body of Cohen’s work. By identifying five ‘paradoxes’ in his thought, she explores the origins of his interest in analytical philosophy, his engagement with the ideas of right-wing libertarianism, his critique of John Rawls’s work, his late-career turn to conservatism, and the tension between his preoccupation with individual responsibility and the idea of a socialist ethos. Sypnowich acknowledges the strengths of Cohen’s positions as well as their tensions and flaws, and presents him as a thinker of startling insight. This compelling introduction is a go-to resource for students and scholars of modern political philosophy.

Handbook of Equality of Opportunity

Author : Mitja Sardoč
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031558979
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Equality of Opportunity written by Mitja Sardoč and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illusions of Equality (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 7)

Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135171173
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Illusions of Equality (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 7) written by David Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism. David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the ideal of educational excellence - in which conflict it is this ideal that must be preserved. He goes on to criticize the use of education as a tool for promoting wider social equality, focussing especially on the muddles surrounding 'equal opportunities', 'social mix' and 'reverse discrimination'. Further chapters criticize the 'new egalitarianism' favoured, on epistemological grounds, by various sociologists of knowledge in recent years and 'cultural egalitarianism' according to which standard criteria of educational value merely reflect parochial and economic interests.