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The Roots of Equality
Anthropological and Normative Sources
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2023
Summary
For centuries, thinkers have grappled with the mystery of how humans first formulated the notion of equality. The species is quite territorial and, according to history, has demonstrated a violent streak. How could such a creature have developed the peaceful impulse to ensure everyone gets their fair share?
Some have surmised that equality was a last-gasp measure: the guarantee of peace to avert self-annihilation. However, a closer examination of the phenomenon across the existence of Homo sapiens illuminates a naturalistic solution to the puzzle. Lantz Miller traces the early advancements of our species to argue that, rather than concocting equality to forestall self-annihilation, it was forged through a lived condition of freedom over hundreds of thousands of years. Bringing together insights from both philosophy and anthropology, The Roots of Equality: Anthropological and Normative Sources investigates how our foraging ancestors came to thrive in egalitarian communities without sacrificing autonomy along the way.
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2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1486-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1487-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
252
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Introduction: The Normative Motivation Behind This Descriptive Investigation No access Pages 1 - 10
1. How and Why Naturalism Can Aid Delineating What Equality Consists In No access Pages 11 - 17
2. The Equality Debates: A Very Brief Sketch of the Philosophical History of Equality No access Pages 18 - 48
3. The Natural History of Equality: What Philosophy Can Learn from Anthropology’s Study of Egalitarian Societies No access Pages 49 - 94
4. The Natural History of Equality: The Onset of Inequality No access Pages 95 - 122
5. Equality and Justice: The Social Construction of Justice in theInegalitarian State No access Pages 123 - 168
6. EqualityA, Autonomy, Freedom No access Pages 169 - 187
7. Equality in the Contemporary Context No access Pages 188 - 232
