Equality: More or Less (Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761871160 ISBN 13: 9780761871163

Verlag: Hamilton Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with the topic.



Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely thwarted.



Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another, convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Tully is professor emeritus of philosophy at West Point and the University of Toronto.

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell professor of philosophy and religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.

Morten G. Ender is professor of sociology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761871160
• ISBN 13: 9780761871163
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366
• Herausgeber: Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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