Caste Wars
A Philosophy of Discrimination
The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. The book raises many interesting questions, including:Why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on certain grounds - e.g. of race and sex - than discrimination on other grounds? Are we right to think that discrimination based on these characteristics is especially invidious? What should we think about 'rational discrimination' - 'discrimination' which is based on sound statistics?To take just one of dozens of examples from the book. Suppose a landlord turns away a prospective tenant, because this prospective tenant is of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-134-17251-1
- EAN: 9781134172511
- Produktnummer: 14828108
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 394 KB
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