Equality and partiality / Thomas Nagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagel, Thomas, 1937- author.

Contributor:

Oxford University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 186 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation. Withineach individual, Nagel believes, there is a division between two standpoints, the personal and the impersonal. Without the impersonal standpoint, there would be no morality, only the clash, compromise, and occasional convergence of individual perspectives. It is because a human being does notoccupy only

Contents:

Two Standpoints

The Problem of Utopianism

Legitimacy and Unanimity

Kant's Test

The Moral Division of Labor

Egalitarianism

Problems of Convergence

Problems of Structure

Equality and Motivation

Options

Inequality

Rights

Toleration

Limits: The World.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-987005-5

9786610533466

1-280-53346-3

0-19-802342-1

1-4237-5885-4

OCLC:

191826412