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The Nature and Limits of Human Equality
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Artikel-Nr:
9781137329158
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.08.2013
Seiten:
188
Autor:
John Charvet
Gewicht:
567 g
Format:
236x157x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
John Charvet is Professor Emeritus in Political Science at London School of Economics, UK, where he taught political philosophy and its history for many years. He is the author of several books, including A Critique of Freedom and Equality and The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Rousseau. His most recent book, written with Dr Kaczynska-Nay, is The Liberal Project and Human Rights (2008).
The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint. Yet, the standard individualist justification for it is weak and contradictory. This book provides a radically new communitarian account of the value of equality and establishes it's proper limits.
This book exposes the weakness of existing individualist grounds for our belief in human equality, provides a better communitarian account while showing the limits to the equality thus justified.
Key Terms 1. The Strange Neglect of the Basis of Equality in Contemporary Egalitarianism 2. Ancient Ethics and the Transformation of Political Values in Early Modern Natural Law Theory 3. The Individualist Ethical Justification of Equality and its Problems 4. The Community as the Source of Individual Ethical Worth 5. Communitarianism, Old and New 6. Global Justice in the Contemporary Literature 7. Liberal Communitarianism from a Global Perspective Selected Bibliography Index