The roots of equality anthropological and normative sources
"This book investigates how Homo sapiens thrived in and nurtured a certain social condition that happened to abet our continual survival. This condition of individual autonomy shaped our species and led humans to demand social equality to this day"--
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| Sprache: | English |
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
Lexington Books
2023
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: The normative motivation behind this descriptive investigation
- How and why naturalism can aid delineating what equality consists in
- The Equality Debates: A very brief sketch of the philosophical history of equality
- The natural history of equality: What philosophy can learn from anthropology's study of egalitarian societies
- The natural history of equality: The onset of inequality
- Equality and justice: The social construction of justice in the inegalitarian state
- Equality, autonomy, freedom
- Equality in the contemporary context