The Nature and Limits of Human Equality [electronic resource] /
Charvet, John.author.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Glossary of Key Terms""; ""The Strange Neglect of the Basis of Equality in Contemporary Egalitarianism                                                                                  ""; ""Ancient Ethics and the Transformation of Political Values in Early Modern Natural Law Theory                                                                                                   ""
""The Individualist Ethical Justification of Equality and Its Problems                                                                           """"The Community as the Source of Individual Ethical Worth                                                              ""; ""Communitarianism, Old and New                                    ""; ""Global Justice in the Contemporary Literature                                                    ""; ""Liberal Communitarianism from a Global Perspective                                                         ""
""Selected Bibliography                            """"Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Political science.
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World politics.
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