By Andrea Sangiovanni

ISBN-10: 0674049217

ISBN-13: 9780674049215

Why are all individuals due equivalent appreciate? Andrea Sangiovanni rejects the view that human dignity is grounded in our capacities for cause, love, and so on. instead of specialize in the foundation for equality, we must always specialise in inequality: Why and whilst is it unsuitable to regard others as inferior? ethical equality, he writes, is healthier defined through a rejection of cruelty.

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