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Born free and equal? : a philosophical inquiry into the nature of discrimination
What is discrimination? There are certain instances of differential treatment that almost anyone would describe as discriminatory. Yet, when one looks deeper into the issue it seems that such near unanimity about certain core cases is simply the tip of consensus of an iceberg of disagreement or difference. For instance, is it discrimination against smokers when hospitals hire nonsmokers only? Is it sex discrimination when swinger clubs charge male, unlike female, members a fee? Not only do people differ over which cases of differential treatment they see as discriminatory, they also disagree about when discrimination is morally wrong; what makes discrimination morally wrong; and, indeed, about whether all forms of discrimination are morally wrong! Finally, people disagree over what should be done about wrongful discrimination—especially about what the state could permissibly do to eliminate wrongful discrimination, e.g. in people’s love lives. This book addresses these issues. It argues that there are different concepts of discrimination and that different purposes and contexts determine which one is the most useful. First, it gives special attention to a concept of discrimination that ties discrimination to differential treatment of people on the basis of their membership in socially salient groups. Second, it argues that discrimination is wrong, when it is, because of its harmful effects. Third, it takes issue with some of the standard devices used to counteract discrimination, e.g. proportional representation of different groups, and submits that combating discrimination requires more than state actions. Also, it argues that states may sometimes permissibly discriminate.
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Nationalism and multiculturalism in a world of immigration
This anthology contributes to the still emerging theoretical debates in political theory and philosophy about multiculturalism, nationalism and immigration. It focuses on multiculturalism and nationalism as factual consequences of, and normative responses to, immigration and on the normative significance (or lack thereof) of the notion of culture.
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism, the view that equality matters, attracts a great deal of attention amongst contemporary political theorists. And yet it has turned out to be surprisingly difficult to provide a fully satisfactory egalitarian theory. The cutting-edge articles in Egalitarianism move the debate forward. They are written by some of the leading political philosophers in the field. Recent issues in the debate over equality are given careful consideration: the distinction between 'telic' and 'deontic' egalitarianism; prioritarianism and the so-called 'levelling down objection' to egalitarianism; whether egalitarian justice should have 'whole lives' or some subset thereof as its temporal focus; the implications of Scanlon's contractualist account of the value of choice for egalitarian justice; and the question of whether non-human animals fall within the scope of egalitarianism and if so, what the implications are. Numerous 'classic' issues receive a new treatment too: how egalitarianism can be justified and how, if at all, this value should be combined with other values such as desert, liberty and sufficiency; how to define the 'worst off' for the purposes of Rawls' difference principle; Elizabeth Anderson's feminist account of 'equality of relations'; how equality applies to risky choices and, in particular, whether it is justifiable to restrict the freedom of suppliers who wish to release goods that confer different levels of risk on consumers, depending on their ability to pay. Finally, the implications of egalitarianism and prioritarianism for health care are scrutinized. The contributors to the volume are: Richard Arneson, Linda Barclay, Thomas Christiano, Nils Holtug, Susan Hurley, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Dennis McKerlie, Ingmar Persson, Bertil Tungodden, Peter Vallentyne, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.
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