Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics
The language of "equity" saturates our contemporary culture. Human-resources departments lead workshops on "diversity, equity, and inclusion." Progressive politicians promise "equity" in everything from housing to healthcare, while their conservative counterparts decry "equity" as a modern invention and a rejection of classical, Western culture's moral principles. Learning to Be Fair shows that nothing undermines that objection more than reading the foundational texts of Western moral philosophy.

Despite its newfound popularity (or infamy), the concept of equity is in fact one of the oldest, most durable principles of Western ethics. In Learning to Be Fair, Charles McNamara excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, philosophers, America's Founding Fathers, and our contemporary culture. He shows how this history connects current debates about the role of equity to long-standing ethical questions about civil disobedience and the possibility of teaching people to be good.

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Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics
The language of "equity" saturates our contemporary culture. Human-resources departments lead workshops on "diversity, equity, and inclusion." Progressive politicians promise "equity" in everything from housing to healthcare, while their conservative counterparts decry "equity" as a modern invention and a rejection of classical, Western culture's moral principles. Learning to Be Fair shows that nothing undermines that objection more than reading the foundational texts of Western moral philosophy.

Despite its newfound popularity (or infamy), the concept of equity is in fact one of the oldest, most durable principles of Western ethics. In Learning to Be Fair, Charles McNamara excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, philosophers, America's Founding Fathers, and our contemporary culture. He shows how this history connects current debates about the role of equity to long-standing ethical questions about civil disobedience and the possibility of teaching people to be good.

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Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

by Charles McNamara
Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

by Charles McNamara

Overview

The language of "equity" saturates our contemporary culture. Human-resources departments lead workshops on "diversity, equity, and inclusion." Progressive politicians promise "equity" in everything from housing to healthcare, while their conservative counterparts decry "equity" as a modern invention and a rejection of classical, Western culture's moral principles. Learning to Be Fair shows that nothing undermines that objection more than reading the foundational texts of Western moral philosophy.

Despite its newfound popularity (or infamy), the concept of equity is in fact one of the oldest, most durable principles of Western ethics. In Learning to Be Fair, Charles McNamara excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, philosophers, America's Founding Fathers, and our contemporary culture. He shows how this history connects current debates about the role of equity to long-standing ethical questions about civil disobedience and the possibility of teaching people to be good.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506495095
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 12/10/2024
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles McNamara is the director of Greek and Latin Studies and a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, Germany. Alongside his several academic publications, he has written for Commonweal, Lapham's Quarterly, and the Washington Post. He lives in downtown Minneapolis.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Soft, Leaden Rule of Justice

Chapter 2: From Epieikeia to Aequitas

Chapter 3: All Cases, in Law and Equity

Chapter 4: Equitable Compliance

Chapter 5: Learning to Be Fair

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