Ideals of Equality

Klappentext What is equality and is it a genuine political ideal? The contributors to this collection address this question in a variety of different ways. In the course of doing so a number of distinctions emerge between different notions of equality, including equality of condition, equality of opportunity and equality of status, and between equality of these kinds and the related idea of giving priority to the worst off. The contributors clarify these notions, and tackle the issue of which (if any) are genuine political ideals which the state may legitimately enforce or promote. Zusammenfassung What is equality and is it a genuine political ideal? The contributors address this question in a variety of different ways! and in the course of doing so they contrast a number of different notions of equality! and distinguish equality from the related idea of giving priority to the worst off. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Equality and Priority: Derek Parfit (All Souls College! Oxford). 2. Equality and Justice: David Miller (Nuffield College! Oxford). 3. The Social Basis of Equality: Richard Norman (University of Kent). 4. Equality of Opportunity: Janet Radcliffe Richards (The Open University). 5. Egalitarianism; Partial! Counterproductive! and Baseless: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo). 6. Choice and Circumstance: Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester).

List of contents

1. Equality and Priority: Derek Parfit (All Souls College, Oxford).
2. Equality and Justice: David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford).

3. The Social Basis of Equality: Richard Norman (University of Kent).

4. Equality of Opportunity: Janet Radcliffe Richards (The Open University).

5. Egalitarianism; Partial, Counterproductive, and Baseless: Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo).

6. Choice and Circumstance: Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester).

Product details

• Authors: Mason, Andrew Mason, Andrew (Reading University) Mason
• Assisted by: Andrew Mason (Editor), Andrew (Reading University) Mason (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1998
• EAN: 9780631207146
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20714-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Ratio Special Issues; Readings in Social & Political Theory; Ratio Special Issues; Readings in Social & Political Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Social discrimination & inequality, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice