Equality And Partiality
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Equality And Partiality
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Author : Thomas Nagel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-11
Equality And Partiality written by Thomas Nagel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-11 with Philosophy categories.
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation. Within each individual, Nagel believes, there is a division between two standpoints, the personal and the impersonal. Without the impersonal standpoint, there would be no morality, only the clash, compromise, and occasional convergence of individual perspectives. It is because a human being does not occupy only his own point of view that each of us is susceptible to the claims of others through private and public morality. Political systems, to be legitimate, must achieve an integration of these two standpoints within the individual. These ideas are applied to specific problems such as social and economic inequality, toleration, international justice, and the public support of culture. Nagel points to the problem of balancing equality and partiality as the most important issue with which political theorists are now faced.
Equality And Partiality
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Author : Thomas Nagel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Equality And Partiality written by Thomas Nagel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Equality categories.
Thomas Nagel addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual. Nagel clarifies the nature of the conflict, one of the most fundamental problems in moral and political theory, and argues that its reconciliation is the essential task of any legitimate political system.
Equality And Responsibility
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Author : Christopher Lake
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-11-08
Equality And Responsibility written by Christopher Lake and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-08 with Political Science categories.
Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal. Underlying this ideal is the egalitarian intuition - the intuition that it is objectionable for some to be worse off than others through no fault of their own. in a wide-ranging discussion, Lake tests that intuition from a variety of perspectives and points to the gaps in our current thinking about quality and individual responsibility.
Partiality And Impartiality In African Philosophy
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Author : M. Molefe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Partiality And Impartiality In African Philosophy written by M. Molefe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy fills the lacuna in African philosophy literature on the inherent tension between requirements of partiality (favoritism) and impartiality (equality). Motsamai Molefe deploys two strategies to philosophically resolve the tension between partiality and impartiality. The first strategy involves applying the moral theories of Kwasi Wiredu, Thaddeus Metz, and Kwame Gyekye to the problem. Finding their views useful in some ways and seriously limited in others, Molefe turns to the second strategy in which he invokes the salient normative concept of personhood in African cultures. Molefe argues that the concept of personhood adjoins theories of human dignity and moral perfection (virtue). The major insight that emerges is a robust ethical theory qua personhood that accommodates both partiality and impartiality. He grounds requirements of impartiality on human dignity, which operates largely as a macro-ethical concept that normatively informs the character of our social institutions (politics). Politics is characterized by fairness, equality, and impartiality. Partiality (the agent-and-other-centred forms of it) is directly connected with the agent’s chief moral duty to achieve her own virtue (moral perfection), which operates as a micro-ethical concept. These two kinds of moral partialism, self-favoritism and close ties such as family, are justified by appeal to the project's view, instead of the individuals-and-relationships view typically invoked to justify moral partiality in the literature.
Equality And Tradition
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Author : Samuel Scheffler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-12
Equality And Tradition written by Samuel Scheffler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinction between doing and allowing, the volume also includes essays on immigration, terrorism, toleration, political equality, and the normative significance of tradition. Uniting the essays is a shared preoccupation with questions about human value and values. The volume opens with an essay that considers the general question of what it is to value something - as opposed, say, to wanting it, wanting to want it, or thinking that it is valuable. Other essays explore particular values, such as equality, whose meaning and content are contested. Still others consider the tensions that arise, both within and among individuals, in consequence of the diversity of human values. One of the overarching aims of the book is to illuminate the different ways in which liberal political theory attempts to resolve conflicts of both of these kinds.
Groups In Conflict
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Author : Donald Franklin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Groups In Conflict written by Donald Franklin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Common good categories.
The Last Word
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Author : Thomas Nagel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-30
The Last Word written by Thomas Nagel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-30 with Philosophy categories.
If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential intellectual flourish or badge of theoretical chic. It is exploited to deflect argument and to belittle the pretensions of the arguments of others. The continuing spread of this relativistic way of thinking threatens to make public discourse increasingly difficult and to exacerbate the deep divisions of our society. In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, one of the most influential philosophers writing in English, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science, and ethics. He shows that the last word in disputes about the objective validity of any form of thought must lie in some unqualified thoughts about how things are--thoughts that we cannot regard from outside as mere psychological dispositions.
Equality And Opportunity
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Author : Shlomi Segall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11
Equality And Opportunity written by Shlomi Segall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with Law categories.
Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity, but recently there has been a sea-change in egalitarian thinking about that concept. Shlomi Segall brings together these developments in egalitarian theory and offers a comprehensive account of 'radical equality of opportunity'.
Social Equality
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Author : Carina Fourie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Social Equality written by Carina Fourie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Philosophy categories.
Is equality valuable? This question dominates many discussions of social justice, which tend to center on whether certain forms of distributive equality are valuable, such as the equal distribution of primary social goods. But these discussions often neglect what is known as social or relational equality. Social equality suggests that equality is foremost about relationships and interactions between people, rather than being primarily about distribution. A number of philosophers have written about the significance of social equality, and it has also played an important role in real-life egalitarian movements, such as feminism and civil rights movements. However, as it has been relatively neglected in comparison to the debates about distributive equality, it requires much more theoretical attention. This volume brings together a collection of ten original essays which present new analyses of social and relational equality in philosophy and political theory. The essays analyze the nature of social equality, as well as its relationship to justice and politics.
Equality For Inegalitarians
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Author : George Sher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-17
Equality For Inegalitarians written by George Sher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides an alternative account of distributive justice on the view that all persons are moral equals.