Against Meritocracy | Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosophy For Our Times

English - September 19, 2018 09:24 - 23 minutes - 22 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Would a meritocratic society provide a fair equality of opportunity? Can discrimination based on merit ever be justified, or should we aim to solve social inequality through equality of outcome? Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British Ghanaian philosopher at Columbia University and author of Cosmopolitanism and The Honor Code.

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