Equality and Partiality

by Thomas Nagel

Book Overview

Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation. Within each individual, Nagel believes, there is a division between two standpoints, the personal and the impersonal. Without the impersonal standpoint, there would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069676
• ISBN13: 9780195069679
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"