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What Makes Discrimination Wrong?
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Most of us intuitively take discrimination based on gender or ethnicity to be impermissible because we have a right to be treated on the basis of merit and capacity rather than e.g. ethnicity or gender. I call this suggestion the Impermissibility Account. I argue that, despite how the Impermissibility Account seems intuitive to most of us with a humanist outlook, it is indefensible. I show that well-informed discrimination can sometimes be permissible, and eve...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Savulescu, J
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Oxford college:
St Cross College
Role:
Editor
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Practical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 105-113
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-01
- ISSN:
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2051-655X
- Source identifiers:
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810594
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- pubs:810594
- Deposit date:
- 2017-12-12
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- University of Oxford
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © University of Oxford 2013. The material in this journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported licence.
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