Discrimination and Disrespect (Introduction)

12 Pages Posted: 4 Feb 2016

Date Written: November 12, 2015

Abstract

Hardly anyone disputes that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something discrimination, as well as precisely why (and hence when) acts of discrimination are wrong. This book aims to develop systematic answers to those two questions. It offers a philosophical account of what discrimination is, and a moral theory to explain what is characteristically wrong with it.

Note: This is the introduction to the book, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

Keywords: discrimination, disrespect, ethics, equality, generalization, stereotyping, profiling

Suggested Citation

Eidelson, Benjamin, Discrimination and Disrespect (Introduction) (November 12, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2727296 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2727296

Benjamin Eidelson (Contact Author)

Harvard Law School ( email )

1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

HOME PAGE: http://scholar.harvard.edu/beidelson

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