Just Hierarchy (eBook)

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

Daniel A. Bell, Wang Pei (Autoren)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20088-0 (ISBN)

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A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other philosophies and traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. They look at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste.Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? Bell and Wang argue that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different from what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different from the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past.A vigorous, systematic defense of hierarchy in the modern world, Just Hierarchy examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: abuse of power • Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case • ancient China • Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power • Ancient India • animal rights • Animal welfare • Artificial Intelligence • Barbarian • Berggruen Institute • Buddhism • Capitalism • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences • China • Chinese Culture • Colonialism • communism • communist • communist society • competitive elections • Confucianism • Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times • Confucius • ConText • Criticism • cruelty • cruelty to animals • Cultural revolution • Deliberation • Democracy • Dharma • domesticated • Eating Animals • Economic Inequality • egalitarianism • Employment • EQUAL • Equality • Equal Opportunity • ethics • Exploit • Exploitation • Family members • Filial Piety • foreign policy • Friends • global order • Governance • Great Power • Hard Power • Housekeepers • Humane • hypocrisy • Indication (medicine) • Intellectual • International Relations • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • John Rawls • Joseph Chan • Legalism (Chinese philosophy) • Liang Shuming • Liberal • lovers • Marx • Marxism • Mass line • meal • meat • Mencius • Meritocracy • Modernity • Morality • Nonviolence • Obedience (human behavior) • Obligation • Patriarchy • Peking University • Philosopher • police state • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political thought • Politician • Politics • Populism • Power • Prediction • Princeton-China Series • Princeton University Press • Racism • Rajeev Bhargava • relationships • Religion • Representative Democracy • role reversal • Ruler • salary • Scholar-official • Self-Help • seniority • Serve the People • Sexism • Shandong University • Silicon Valley • Slavery • social equality • social relation • Social Status • Society • Soft Power • Sortition • sovereign state • Sovereignty • Stanford University • subordinate • Subordination • Superintelligence • System • Taoism • The Other Hand • Tianxia • Tongdong Bai • Tsinghua University • Vegetarianism • Voting • war • Warring States Period • Wealth • welfare • well-being • Western World • Xi Jinping • Xunzi (book) • Yan Xuetong
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20088-2 / 0691200882
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20088-0 / 9780691200880