Equality and Opportunity

Equality and Opportunity

Author: Shlomi Segall

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0199661812

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Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity, but recently there has been a sea-change in egalitarian thinking about that concept. Shlomi Segall brings together these developments in egalitarian theory and offers a comprehensive account of 'radical equality of opportunity'.


A-Z of Childcare

A-Z of Childcare

Author: Christine Hobart

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780748731893

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This book provides a completely new approach to planning and study for all childcare courses. Written by the country's leading childcare authors, A-Z of Childcare explains the most effective methods of study, and presents outline plans to all the key curriculum areas.


The Monist

The Monist

Author: Paul Carus

Publisher:

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices.


Against Equality of Opportunity

Against Equality of Opportunity

Author: Matt Cavanagh

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2002-02-14

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0191584045

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Against Equality of Opportunity deals with the ways in which opportunities - education, jobs and other things which affect how people get on in life - are distributed. Take jobs: should the best person always get the job? Or should everyone be given an equal 'life chance'? Or can we somehow combine these two ideas, saying that the best person should always get the job, but that everyone should have an equal chance to become the best? These seem to be the standard views, but this book argues that they are all flawed. We need to understand meritocracy for what it is - a technical rather than a moral ideal; and we need to accept that equality just isn't something we should be striving for at all in this area. We also need to rethink our approach to the related issue of discrimination. We tend to assume discrimination is wrong because it violates either meritocracy or equality, when in fact it is wrong for quite different reasons. In all these areas, then, Cavanagh aims to loosen the grip of established ways of thinking, in order that other ideas might find room to breathe. This is particularly important in the case of meritocracy, which after the recent conversion of the centre-left now dominates the debate more than ever. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of political philosophy, but ultimately it is aimed at anyone who cares about the fundamental values that lie behind the way society is organized. Though the argument is rigorous, it does not require a professional philosophical training to follow it.


Children's Chances

Children's Chances

Author: Jody Heymann

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-02-11

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0674067975

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Children’s Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children’s full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.


From Chance to Choice

From Chance to Choice

Author: Allen Buchanan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780521669771

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This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000, was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality of opportunity, the rights and obligations as parents, the meaning of disability, and the role of the concept of human nature in ethical theory and practice. The book offers a historical context to contemporary debate over the use of these technologies by examining the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The questions raised in this book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about science and society and the rapid development of biotechnology, as well as to professionals in such areas as philosophy, bioethics, medical ethics, health management, law, and political science.


Uncertain Chances

Uncertain Chances

Author: Maurice S. Lee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199985812

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Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.