| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Contents |
Social equality, relative poverty and marginalised groups -- Racial equality -- Epistemic contribution as a central human capability -- Equality of intelligibility -- Capability luck egalitarianism -- From well-faring to well-being: prospects for a metric of liberal egalitarian justice -- Hierarchy and social respect: friends or enemies? -- Equality of freedom -- An African egalitarianism: bringing community to bear on equality -- Equality, liberty and modern constitutionalism -- Forward-looking equalization: can it subsume historical redress claims? -- What is equality in higher education? -- Does the gendered division of labor undermine citizenship? -- Social equality and economic institutions: arguing for workplace democracy |
| Summary |
The Equal Society collects fourteen new scholarly essays by established and emerging researchers on the topic of equality-including new work by Ann E. Cudd, Miranda Fricker, Charles W. Mills and Jonathan Wolff. The authors address political, legal and ethical aspects of their subject, and provide fresh perspectives on themes prominent in current social and political philosophy, including relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities approach, African ethics, gender equality and the philosophy of race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Equality.
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Cultural pluralism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Cultural pluralism
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Equality
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mills, Charles, contributor
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Fricker, Miranda, contributor
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Putnam, Daniel, contributor
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Williams, Bekka, contributor
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Hull, George, contributor
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Angier, Tom, contributor
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Allais, Lucy, contributor
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Metz, Thaddeus, contributor
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Wolff, Jonathan, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781498515726 |
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149851572X |
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