Equality

Selected Readings
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-19-510250-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Louis Pojman and Robert Westmorland have compiled the best material on the subject of equality, ranging from classical works by Aristotle, Hobbes and Rousseau to contemporary works by John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Michael Walzer, Harry Frankfurt, Bernard Williams and Robert Nozick; and including such topics as: the concept of equality; equal opportunity; Welfare egalitarianism; resources; equal human rights and complex equality.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: The Nature and Value of Equality
I. Classical Readings:

1. Aristotle: Justice and Equality
2. Thomas Hobbes: Equality in the State of Nature
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality
4. David Hume: On Justice and Equality
5. Francis-Noel Babeuf and Sylvain Marechal: The Manifesto of Equality
II. On the concept of Equality Itself
6. Felix E. Oppenheim: Egalitarianism as a Descriptive Concept
7. Dennis McKerlie: Equality and Time
8. Larry Temkin: Inequality
III. General Considerations

9. Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Morals
10. Robert Nozick: Justice Does Not Imply Equality
11. J.R. Lucas: Against Equality
12. Stanley I. Benn: Egalitarianism and the Equal Consideration of Interests
13. Gregory Vlastos: Justice and Equality
IV. Equal Opportunity
14. John Schaar: Equality of Opportunity and Beyond
15. James Fishkin: Liberty versus Equal Opportunity
16. Peter Westen: the concept of Equal Opportunity
17. Robert Nozick: Life is not a Race
18. William Galston: A Liberal Defense of Equal Opportunity
V. The Contemporary Debate on the Nature and Value of Equality
19. John Rawls: Equality and Desert
20. Wallace Matson: Justice: A Funeral Oration
21. Kai Nielson: Radical Welfare Egalitarianism
22. R.M. Hare: A Utilitarian Defense of Equality
23. Richard Arneson: Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare
24. Eric Rakowski: A Critique of Welfare Egalitarianism
25. Thomas Nagel: Equality and Partiality
26. Harry Frankfurt: Equality as a Moral Ideal
27. Eric Rakowski: A Defense of Resource Equality
28. Louis Pojman: On Equal Human Worth: A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism
29. Michael Walzer: Complex Equality
Appendix
30. Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron
Bibliography

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pojman, Louis P.

Westmoreland, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Nature and Value of Equality

- I. Classical Readings

- 1.: Aristotle: Justice and Equality

- 2.: Thomas Hobbes: Equality in the State of Nature

- 3.: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality

- 4.: David Hume: On Justice and Equality

- 5.: Francis-Noel Babeuf and Sylvain Marechal: The Manifesto of Equality

- II. On the Concept of Equality Itself

- 6.: Felix E. Oppenheim: Egalitarianism as a Descriptive Concept

- 7.: Dennis McKerlie: Equality and Time

- 8.: Larry Temkin: Inequality

- III. General Considerations

- 9.: Kant: Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Morals (second formula of the categorical Imperative and other selections)

- 10.: Robert Nozick: Justice Does Not Imply Equality

- 11.: J.R. Lucas: Against Equality

- 12.: Stanley I. Benn: Egalitarianism and the Equal Consideration of Interests

- 13.: Gregory Vlastos: Justice and Equality

- IV. Equal Opportunity

- 14.: John Schaar: Equality of Opportunity and Beyond

- 15.: James Fishkin: Liberty versus Equal Opportunity

- 16.: Peter Westen: The Concept of Equal Opportunity

- 17.: Robert Nozick: Life is Not a Race

- 18.: William Galston: A Liberal Defense of Equal Opportunity

- V. The Contemporary Debate on the Nature and Value of Equality

- 19.: John Rawls: Equality and Desert

- 20.: Wallace Matson: Justice: A Funeral Oration

- 21.: Kai Nielson: Radical Welfare Egalitarianism

- 22.: R.M. Hare: A Utilitarian Defense of Equality

- 23.: Richard Arneson: Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare

- 24.: Eric Rakowski: A Critique of Welfare Egalitarianism

- 25.: Thomas Nagel: Equality and Partiality

- 26.: Harry Frankfurt: Equality as a Moral Ideal

- 27.: Eric Rakowski: A Defense of Resource Equality

- 28.: Louis Pojman: On Equal Human Worth: A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism

- 29.: Michael Walzer: Complex Equality

- Appendix

- 30.: Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron

- Bibliography