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Equality - More or Less (Paperback)
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Equality - More or Less (Paperback)
Series: Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point
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The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work
of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls
within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social
science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the
Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied
are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed
exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with
the topic. Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards
of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an
ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in
acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the
other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such
expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely
thwarted. Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds
these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying
deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which
promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in
those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce
discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who
condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and
unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the
present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate
whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another,
convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being
made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are
considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.
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