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The Pecking Order - Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem (Hardcover)
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The Pecking Order - Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem (Hardcover)
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A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our
political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or
fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy. Niko Kolodny argues
that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political
thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority.
In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our political
thought and discourse-the justification of the state, democracy,
and rule of law, as well as objections to paternalism and
corruption-we cannot merely appeal to freedom, as libertarians do,
or to distributive fairness, as liberals do. We must instead appeal
directly to claims against inferiority-to the conviction that no
one should stand above or below. The problem of justifying the
state, for example, is often billed as the problem of reconciling
the state with the freedom of the individual. Yet, Kolodny argues,
once we press hard enough on worries about the state's encroachment
on the individual, we end up in opposition not to unfreedom but to
social hierarchy. To make his case, Kolodny takes inspiration from
two recent trends in philosophical thought: on the one hand, the
revival of the republican and Kantian traditions, with their focus
on domination and dependence; on the other, relational
egalitarianism, with its focus on the effects of the distribution
of income and wealth on our social relations. The Pecking Order
offers a detailed account of relations of inferiority in terms of
objectionable asymmetries of power, authority, and regard. Breaking
new ground, Kolodny looks ahead to specific kinds of democratic
institutions that could safeguard against such relations.
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