Dr Teresa M. Bejan - 22 April 2016 - Acknowledging Equality
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English - April 26, 2016 07:40 - 58 minutes - 1.28 GB Video - ★★★ - 1 ratingHistory Arts books culture news health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The seventh Balzan-Skinner lecture and symposium with Balzan-Skinner Fellow Dr Teresa Bejan.
As the core premise of modern moral and political philosophy, equality often demands more allegiance than investigation. The question of its historical emergence as a social and political ideal is generally set aside in favor of identifying the causal and constitutive harms of various kinds of inequality – political, social, or economic. This talk will explore ideas of equality as a political principle, a religious commitment, and a social practice in seventeenth-century England. These fascinating but forgotten visions of “equality before egalitarianism” shed light on the development of a central concept in modern political thought while providing some analytical clarity and historical insight sorely missing in contemporary debates.