Unconditional equals / Anne Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Anne, 1950- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 141 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the ambiguity at the heart of 'nature' enabled generations to write of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite what we commonly tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations continue today. In 'Unconditional Equals', political philosopher Anne Phillips challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into conditions and ends up as exclusion.

Contents:

Not yet basic equals

Histories of exclusion

Justification is still condition

Status and resources

Equality, prescription, and choice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

9780691226163

0691226164

OCLC:

1273427201