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The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with the topic. Together, the studies reveal both conflicting standards of equality as well as patterns of pernicious inequality. In an ideal world, equality and inequality among humans would vary in acceptable proportion, increase of the one ensuring decrease of the other. Unfortunately, as the studies illustrate, any such expectation of progress in the real world is almost routinely thwarted. Despite the wide variety of topics, a common thread binds these essays. Human nature seems to harbor a moral deficiency lying deeper than any written laws and those traditional customs which promote inequality and breed injustice. The fault is prominent in those who champion unjust laws or who willingly enforce discrimination but it is no less active in the silent many who condone the practice. The essays reveal the same persistent and unappealing trait which social groups from the remote past to the present manifest in various ways: blind determination to perpetuate whatever advantages one group believes it enjoys over another, convinced that its own members are more equal than theirs. Being made unequal, the others too easily become targets who are considered less worthy, sometimes even less human.

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Author:   Robert E. Tully ,  Bruce Chilton ,  Brandon Jason Archuleta ,  Richard H. Davis
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   Hamilton Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780761871163

ISBN 10:   0761871160
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by R. E. Tully Part I: Historical Perspectives Chapter 1: Equality Deferred: A Litany of Discrimination by Robert J. Goldstein Chapter 2: Equality and Diversity in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey by George W. Gawrych Chapter 3: The Social Practice of (In)equality in Nazi Germany by David S. Frey Chapter 4: Social Inequality and the United States Army: The (Un)lucky Seven by Morten G. Ender and Betsy Lucal Chapter 5: Civil War Pension Policy: The Politics of Policy Subsystems by Brandon Jason Archuleta Chapter 6: Selecting a Military Court-Martial Panel: A Study of Inequality by LTC Christopher Jacobs Chapter 7: United Nations Peace Missions and Protection of Civilians: Equality versus Efficiency? by Darya Pushkina Part II: Theological Perspectives Chapter 8: Ultimately Equal and Relatively Complicated: Questions about Equality in Teaching Buddhist Studies by Dominique Townsend Chapter 9: The Rabbinic Meritocracy and Its Discontents by Shai Secunda Chapter 10: Equality in Paul of Tarsus-More and Less by Bruce Chilton Chapter 11: The Perilous Promise of Equality: Scriptural Politics in Contemporary Iran by Tehseen Thaver Chapter 12: Gandhi, Krishna, and Caste: Inequality More or Less by Richard H. Davis Part III: Philosophical Perspectives Chapter 13: Men of Fortitude: Gender and Combatant Non-Immunity in War by Graham Parsons Chapter 14: Minding Gibbon's Manners: Unwritten Rules and the Rhetoric of Equality by Hugh Liebert Chapter 15: A Kantian Approach to Recognizing Privilege by Courtney Morris Chapter 16: Inequality in Skepticism by R. E. Tully Epilogue by Bruce Chilton Index About the Contributors

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Robert Tully is professor emeritus of philosophy at West Point and the University of Toronto. Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell professor of philosophy and religion and director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.

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