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40 Cards in this Set
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“Being true to myself means being true to my own originality, which is something only I can articulate and discover. In articulating it, I am also defining myself. I am realizing a potentiality that is properly my own.”
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Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor
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“What has come about with the modern age is not the need for recognition but the conditions in which the attempt to be recognized can fail.”
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Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor
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Recognition
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Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor
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“Democratic equality regards two people as equal when each accepts the obligation to justify their actions by principles acceptable to the other.”
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What is the Point of Equality? Elizabeth Anderson
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“We define our identity as always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us.”
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Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor
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“Its proper positive aim is not to ensure that everyone gets what they morally deserve, but to create a community in which people stand in relations of equality to others.”
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What is the Point of Equality? Elizabeth Anderson
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“Everyone understands that money is much too important to be handed out in this whimsical fashion. Women and children are another story.”
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Who’s Culture? Katha Pollitt
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Authenticity
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Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor
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“His own society, with its present institutions, is a virtuous society for the special reason that its history and common experience are better guides to sound virtue than any non-historical and therefore abstract deduction of virtue from first principles could provide.”
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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“There are no better mechanisms…than the two main institutions of our own political economy; the economic market, for decisions about what goods shall be produced and how they shall be distributed, and representative democracy, for collective decisions about what conduct shall be prohibited or regulated so that other conduct might be made possible or convenient.”
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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Bad Brute Luck
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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Conservatism
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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“Political decisions must be, so far as is possible, independent of any particular conception of the good life, or of what gives value to life. Since the citizens of a society differ in their conceptions, the government does not treat them as equals if it prefers one conception to another.”
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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Liberalism
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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“One might hope for a society in which there existed both a fair, rational and appropriate distribution of these goods, and no contempt, condescension, or lack of human communication between persons who were more and less successful recipients of the distribution. Yet in actual fact, there are deep psychological and social obstacles to the realization of this hope.”
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The Idea of Equality: Bernard Williams
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Luck Egalitarianism
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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Market
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Liberalism: Ronald Dworkin
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“No one has a right to something whose realization requires certain uses of things and activities that other people have rights and entitlements over.”
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Anarchy, State and Utopia: Robert Nozick
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Entitlements
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Anarchy, State and Utopia: Robert Nozick
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“The assertion that men are alike in the possession of these characteristics is, while indisputable and (it may be) even necessarily true, not trivial.”
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The Idea of Equality: Bernard Williams
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Equality of Opportunity
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The Idea of Equality: Bernard Williams
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Equality of Respect
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The Idea of Equality: Bernard Williams
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“Pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would you?”
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Harrison Bergeron: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Handicapper General
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Harrison Bergeron: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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“The bourgeois conception of equality…is ‘natural’ in a way that other political ideas—egalitarian or anti-egalitarian—are not.”
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About Equality: Irving Kristol
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“We have an intelligentsia which so despises the ethos of bourgeois society, and which is so guilt-ridden at being implicated in the life of this society, that it is inclined to find even collective suicide preferable to the status quo.”
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About Equality: Irving Kristol
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Bell-shaped curve
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About Equality: Irving Kristol
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Bourgeois society
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About Equality: Irving Kristol
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“There is no single talent or combination of talents that plausibly entitles a man to every available social good—and there is no single talent or combination of talents that necessarily must win the available goods of a free society.”
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In Defense of Equality: Michael Walzer
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“What socialists want is a society in which wealth is no longer convertible into social goods with which it has no intrinsic connection.”
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In Defense of Equality: Michael Walzer
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Tyranny
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In Defense of Equality: Michael Walzer
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Socialism
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In Defense of Equality: Michael Walzer
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“They might be much better off if the culture into which they were born were…to become extinct.”
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Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women: Susan Okin
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Feminism
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Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women: Susan Okin
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Group Rights
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Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women: Susan Okin
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“We must resist the all-too familiar and dangerous temptation to mark foreignness itself as fundamentally threatening to women.”
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My Culture Made Me Do It: Bonnie Honig
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Multiculturalism
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Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women: Susan Okin
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Envy
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What is the Point of Equality? Elizabeth Anderson
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“Why is it oppressive to wear a head scarf but liberating to wear a miniskirt.”
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Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World/ Minority Women? Azizah al-Hibri
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Democratic Equality
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What is the Point of Equality? Elizabeth Anderson
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