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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098390
• ISBN13: 9780195098396
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"