Rethinking Equal Opportunity
Harlan Beckley, "Rethinking Equal Opportunity"
English | ISBN: 1538191059 | 2024 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 559 KB + 1186 KB
English | ISBN: 1538191059 | 2024 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 559 KB + 1186 KB
This book explores equal opportunity—more accurately “fair equality of opportunity”—as a norm that commands at least casual consent from many U.S. citizens. If we could agree what fair equality of opportunity actually requires, this shared conception could offer a collective normative principle and disposition to advance current policies, practices, institutions, and interpersonal behavior, leading to a more just society.
Even if our collective consent to equal opportunity is devoid of much substance, it forms a shaky platform for a more thoughtful exploration and deliberation of what equal opportunity requires of us individually and collectively. This book offers a substantive concept, principle, and disposition that can guide our thinking about justice and rescue us from an empty cliché. It proposes meaningful content for equal opportunity as a morally, socially, politically, and science-informed conception.
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