Moral Equality: Article of Faith

Mcbride, David (2017). Moral Equality: Article of Faith. PhD thesis The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000c62f

Abstract

In the first part of this thesis I demonstrate that the best arguments we have for the equal moral worth of all human beings are incorrigibly defective. This is a problem because many people hold that equality between persons in the political, legal and social realms depends on and is justified by their equal value in the moral realm. I solve the problem in the second part of my thesis by developing an account of human worth which cuts the chain of dependency so that political, legal and social equality needn’t hang on moral equality. The result is an account of human value as neither equal nor unequal and which preserves and satisfies the spirit of moral and political egalitarianism. What is that spirit? That everyone matters and no-one more than any other.

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  • Item ORO ID
  • 50735
  • Item Type
  • PhD Thesis
  • Keywords
  • moral equality; moral value; moral status; moral worth; Christine Korsgaard; John Rawls; range properties; basic equality; moral persons; basis properties; Jeremy Waldron; human rights
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  • Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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  • © 2017 The Author
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  • David Mcbride
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