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The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics) - Softcover

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9780367735883: The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367735881 ISBN 13: 9780367735883
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

While it has many connections to other topics in normative and applied ethics, discrimination is a central subject in philosophy in its own right. It plays a significant role in relation to many real-life complaints about unjust treatment or unjust inequalities, and it raises a number of questions in political and moral philosophy, and in legal theory. Some of these questions include: what distinguishes the concept of discrimination from the concept of differential treatment? What distinguishes direct from indirect discrimination? Is discrimination always morally wrong? What makes discrimination wrong? How should we eliminate the effects of discrimination? By covering a wide range of topics, and by doing so in a way that does not assume prior acquaintance, this handbook enables the reader to get to grips with the omnipresent issue.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook is divided into six main parts:

• conceptual issues

• the wrongness of discrimination

• groups of ‘discriminatees’

• sites of discrimination

• causes and means

• history of discrimination.

Essential reading for students and researchers in applied ethics and political philosophy the handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as law, sociology and politics.

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About the Author

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is professor in political theory at University of Aarhus, Denmark, professor II in philosophy at University of Tromsø, Norway and Associate Editor of Ethics. His main work on discrimination is Born Free and Equal? (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367735881
ISBN 13 
9780367735883
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
476
Editor
Lippert-Rasmussen Kasper