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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 360
Utgivningsdatum: 1999-03-01
Förlag: Princeton University Press
Medarbetare: Witte, John (foreword)
Illustrationer: 1 line illus.
Dimensioner: 242 x 164 x 32 mm
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Komponenter: 54:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Blue Cloth w/Jacket on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9780691059228

By Nature Equal

Name: By Nature Equal
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Author: John E Coons, Patrick M Brennan
ISBN: 9780691059228

The Anatomy of a Western Insight

av John E Coons, Patrick M Brennan

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999-03-01

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What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection. Plausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems from the power of individuals to achieve goodness simply by doing the best they can to discover and perform correct actions.If people enjoy the same degree of natural capacity to try, all of us are offered the same opportunities for moral self-fulfillment. To believe this is to believe in equality. This truly interdisciplinary work not only proposes the authors' own rationale but also provides an effective deconstruction of several other contemporary theories of equality, while it engages historical, philosophical, and Christian accounts as well. Furthermore, by divorcing the 'best' from the 'brightest,' it shows how descriptive equality acquires practical significance. Among other accomplishments, "By Nature Equal" offers communitarians a core principle that has until now eluded them, rescues human dignity from the hierarchy of intellect, identifies racism in a new way, and shows how justice can be freshly grounded in the conviction that every rational person has the same capacity for moral excellence.

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Acknowledgment and Apology Pt. IHuman Equality: What does it Mean? 1What Has Been Said? 2The Host Property 3Making the Host Property Uniform Pt. IICould the Philosophers Believe in Human Equality? 4Could the Enlightenment Believe? Individualism, Kant, and Equality 5Nature, Natural Law, and Equality Pt. IIICould the Christians Believe in Human Equality? 6The Framework for a Christian Obtensionalism 7Repaving the Road to Hell: The Pelagian Issues 8The Repaving Project, Part II: An Equal-Opportunity Creator Pt. IVGood Persons and the Common Good 9Harmonies of the Moral Spheres 10Harvests of Equality Notes Index