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The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem

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The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem - Kolodny, Niko
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"Our political thinking is driven, far more than philosophers recognize, by a concern for social equality and, more specifically, a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. Niko Kolodny argues that, 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 like Nozick do) or to distributive fairness (as liberals like Rawls do) ...

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The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem 2023, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674248151

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