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Equality and Partiality

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Oxford University Press, Aug 8, 1991 - Philosophy - 208 pages
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation. Within each individual, Nagel believes, there is a division between two standpoints, the personal and the impersonal. Without the impersonal standpoint, there would be no morality, only the clash, compromise, and occasional convergence of individual perspectives. It is because a human being does not occupy only his own point of view that each of us is susceptible to the claims of others through private and public morality. Political systems, to be legitimate, must achieve an integration of these two standpoints within the individual. These ideas are applied to specific problems such as social and economic inequality, toleration, international justice, and the public support of culture. Nagel points to the problem of balancing equality and partiality as the most important issue with which political theorists are now faced.
  

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Contents

Introduction
3
Two Standpoints
10
The Problem of Utopianism
21
Legitimacy and Unanimity
33
Kants Test
41
The Moral Division of Labor
53
Egalitarianism
63
Problems of Convergence
75
Equality and Motivation
96
Options
120
Inequality
130
Rights
139
Toleration
154
The World
169
BIBLIOGRAPHY
181
INDEX
185

Problems of Structure
85
Copyright

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TitleEquality and Partiality
AuthorThomas Nagel Professor of Philosophy and Law New York University
PublisherOxford University Press, 1991
ISBN0198023421, 9780198023425
Length208 pages
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