Pursuit of Equality in the West

by Aldo Schiavone

One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere.

How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed that men, at least, were born equal. Later...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975758
• ISBN13: 9780674975750
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"