Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008002050/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 26 of
26
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection. Plausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems from the power of individuals to achieve goodness simply by doing the best they can to discover and perform correct actions. If people enjoy the same degree of natural capacity to try, all of us are offered the same opportunities for moral self-fulfillment. To believe this is to believe in equality." "This truly interdisciplinary work not only proposes the authors' own rationale but also provides an effective deconstruction of several other contemporary theories of equality, while it engages historical, philosophical, and Christian accounts as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11100892.
- catalog contributor b11100893.
- catalog contributor b11100894.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection. Plausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems from the power of individuals to achieve goodness simply by doing the best they can to discover and perform correct actions. If people enjoy the same degree of natural capacity to try, all of us are offered the same opportunities for moral self-fulfillment. To believe this is to believe in equality." "This truly interdisciplinary work not only proposes the authors' own rationale but also provides an effective deconstruction of several other contemporary theories of equality, while it engages historical, philosophical, and Christian accounts as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / John Witte, Jr. -- Introduction: In Search of a Descriptive Human Equality -- pt. I. Human Equality: What does it Mean? 1. What Has Been Said? 2. The Host Property. 3. Making the Host Property Uniform -- pt. II. Could the Philosophers Believe in Human Equality? 4. Could the Enlightenment Believe? Individualism, Kant, and Equality. 5. Nature, Natural Law, and Equality -- pt. III. Could the Christians Believe in Human Equality? 6. The Framework for a Christian Obtensionalism. 7. Repaving the Road to Hell: The Pelagian Issues. 8. The Repaving Project, Part II: An Equal-Opportunity Creator -- pt. IV. Good Persons and the Common Good. 9. Harmonies of the Moral Spheres. 10. Harvests of Equality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-348) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 362 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691059225 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "New forum books".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "305/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Equality Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Equality Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Equality before the law.".
- catalog subject "HM146 .C66 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / John Witte, Jr. -- Introduction: In Search of a Descriptive Human Equality -- pt. I. Human Equality: What does it Mean? 1. What Has Been Said? 2. The Host Property. 3. Making the Host Property Uniform -- pt. II. Could the Philosophers Believe in Human Equality? 4. Could the Enlightenment Believe? Individualism, Kant, and Equality. 5. Nature, Natural Law, and Equality -- pt. III. Could the Christians Believe in Human Equality? 6. The Framework for a Christian Obtensionalism. 7. Repaving the Road to Hell: The Pelagian Issues. 8. The Repaving Project, Part II: An Equal-Opportunity Creator -- pt. IV. Good Persons and the Common Good. 9. Harmonies of the Moral Spheres. 10. Harvests of Equality.".
- catalog title "By nature equal : the anatomy of a Western insight / John E. Coons and Patrick M. Brennan ; with a foreword by John Witte, Jr.".
- catalog type "text".