Living with Moral Disagreement

Living with Moral Disagreement
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9780226344416
ISBN-13 : 022634441X
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Book Synopsis Living with Moral Disagreement by : Michele S. Moses

Download or read book Living with Moral Disagreement written by Michele S. Moses and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies—especially within the realm of educational opportunity. In this book, philosopher Michele S. Moses offers a crucial new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds up the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process. Central to Moses’s analysis is the argument that we need to understand disagreements about affirmative action as inherently moral, products of conflicts between deeply held beliefs that shape differing opinions on what justice requires of education policy. As she shows, differing opinions on affirmative action result from different conceptual values, for instance, between being treated equally and being treated as an equal or between seeing race-consciousness as a pernicious political force or as a necessary variable in political equality. As Moses shows, although moral disagreements about race-conscious policies and similar issues are often seen as symptoms of dysfunctional politics, they in fact create rich opportunities for discussions about diversity that nourish democratic thought and life.

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