Groups in Conflict: Equality Versus Community - Couverture rigide

Franklin, Donald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0708320244 ISBN 13 : 9780708320242

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2008

Synopsis

We differ in every valuable attribute. Why then do we insist that we are equal? And why should it bother us? In his ground breaking new book, Donald Franklin finds answers at once profound and disturbing to the conundrum of equality. He argues that the intrinsic value that we share equally lies in what we can each achieve through the free exercise of the will, but most ethically valuable achievement is massively dependent upon support from others. This dependency creates powerful obligations to others, including loved ones and strangers impartially. Yet compromise with impartiality is inevitable, for creation of relationships and communities is an essential aspect of ethical flourishing, and relationships of value involve a knowledge of the other that demands special concern for their needs. When we insist upon impartiality as a cardinal political virtue, what place do we leave for loyalty to family and to compatriots? Political philosophers (including Rawls) and communitarian ethicists (such as Walzer) have sought to sidestep this value conflict by reserving impartiality to the political sphere, leaving personal loyalties immune from impartialist critique. Franklin demonstrates the incoherence of this approach. He goes on to show how individually and collectively we can and should weigh the claims of strangers against what is of true value in our relationships and communities. To illustrate the power of this framework, Franklin uses it to challenge conventional political wisdom relating to immigration and emigration policies, and to outline a novel approach to the inter-community conflict in the Holy Land.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Donald Franklin is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University College London and Senior Economic Adviser in the UK Government Economic Service.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0708320244
• ISBN 13: 9780708320242
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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