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136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy

Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris Season 1 Episode 136

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In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It says that the point of equality is to live in a society of equals. Its proponents skewered famous analytical Marxists for having a reductive and economistic view of justice. Was this fair? Join us to find out. 

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References:

Elizabeth Anderson, “What’s the Point of Equality?” Ethics 109 (1999): 287-337.

Samuel Scheffler, “What is Egalitarianism?” Philosophy and Public Affairs 31(2003): 5-39.

Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press, 1990. 

Music:

“Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

“My Space” by Overu |https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN