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From Rationality to Equality (Hardcover)
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From Rationality to Equality (Hardcover)
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Most contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to
have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In
From Rationality to Equality, James P. Sterba provides just such an
argument and further shows that morality, so justified, requires
substantial equality. His argument from rationality to morality is
based on the principle of non-question-beggingness and has two
forms. The first assumes that the egoist is willing to argue for
egoism non-question-beggingly, and the second only assumes that the
egoist is willing to assent to premises she actually needs to
achieve her egoistic goals. Either way, he argues, morality is
rationally (i.e., non-question-beggingly) preferable to egoism.
Sterba's argument from morality to equality non-question-beggingly
starts with assumptions that are acceptable from a libertarian
perspective, the view that appears to endorse the least enforcement
of morality, and then shows that this perspective requires a right
to welfare which, when extended to distant peoples and future
generations, leads to equality. He defends his two-part argument
against recent critics, and shows how it is preferable not only to
alternative attempts to justify morality, but also to alternative
attempts to show that morality leads to a right to welfare and/or
to equality.
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