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Born free and equal? a philosophical inquiry into the nature of discrimination Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

By: Publication details: Oxford University Press 2014 New YorkDescription: xii, 317 pagesISBN:
  • 9780199796113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305 LIP.B
Summary: Summary This text addresses these three issues: What is discrimination? What makes it wrong?; What should be done about wrongful discrimination? It argues that there are different concepts of discrimination; that discrimination is not always morally wrong and that when it is, it is so primarily because of its harmful effects. Contents Introduction What is discrimination? Indirect discrimination Statistical discrimination Mental-state-based accounts Objective-meaning accounts Harm-based accounts Discrimination and the aim of proportional representation Discrimination in punishment Reaction qualifications Discrimination in the private sphere Racial profiling.
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Summary
This text addresses these three issues: What is discrimination? What makes it wrong?; What should be done about wrongful discrimination? It argues that there are different concepts of discrimination; that discrimination is not always morally wrong and that when it is, it is so primarily because of its harmful effects.
Contents
Introduction
What is discrimination?
Indirect discrimination
Statistical discrimination
Mental-state-based accounts
Objective-meaning accounts
Harm-based accounts
Discrimination and the aim of proportional representation
Discrimination in punishment
Reaction qualifications
Discrimination in the private sphere
Racial profiling.

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