Lantz Miller

The Roots of Equality

Anthropological and Normative Sources

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781666914863
• ISBN-10: 166691486X
• Artikelnr.: 67989961

Autorenporträt

By Lantz Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Normative Motivation Behind This Descriptive
Investigation
Chapter One: How and Why Naturalism Can Aid Delineating What Equality
Consists In
Chapter Two: The Equality Debates: A Very Brief Sketch of the Philosophical
History of Equality
Chapter Three: The Natural History of Equality: What Philosophy Can Learn
from Anthropology's Study of Egalitarian Societies
Chapter Four: The Natural History of Equality: The Onset of Inequality
Chapter Five: Equality and Justice: The Social Construction of Justice in
the Inegalitarian State
Chapter Six: EqualityA, Autonomy, Freedom
Chapter Seven: Equality in the Contemporary Context