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Unconditional Equals (Paperback)
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Unconditional Equals (Paperback)
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Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature”
but has to be for all For centuries, ringing declarations about all
men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the
reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural
equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the
ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to write
of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of
those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite
what we commonly tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations
continue today. In Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne
Phillips challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a
shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into
conditions and ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of
justification, she calls instead for a genuinely unconditional
equality. Drawing on political, feminist, and postcolonial theory,
Unconditional Equals argues that we should understand equality not
as something grounded in shared characteristics but as something
people enact when they refuse to be considered inferiors. At a time
when the supposedly shared belief in human equality is so patently
not shared, the book makes a powerful case for seeing equality as a
commitment we make to ourselves and others, and a claim we make on
others when they deny us our status as equals.
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