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100 1 $aCoons, John E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92033562
245 10 $aBy nature equal :$bthe anatomy of a Western insight /$cJohn E. Coons and Patrick M. Brennan ; with a foreword by John Witte, Jr.
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axxiv, 362 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aNew forum books
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rJohn Witte, Jr. --$tIntroduction: In Search of a Descriptive Human Equality --$gPt. I.$tHuman Equality: What does it Mean?$g1.$tWhat Has Been Said?$g2.$tThe Host Property.$g3.$tMaking the Host Property Uniform --$gPt. II.$tCould the Philosophers Believe in Human Equality?$g4.$tCould the Enlightenment Believe? Individualism, Kant, and Equality.$g5.$tNature, Natural Law, and Equality --$gPt. III.$tCould the Christians Believe in Human Equality?$g6.$tThe Framework for a Christian Obtensionalism.$g7.$tRepaving the Road to Hell: The Pelagian Issues.$g8.$tThe Repaving Project, Part II: An Equal-Opportunity Creator --$gPt. IV.$tGood Persons and the Common Good.$g9.$tHarmonies of the Moral Spheres.$g10.$tHarvests of Equality.
520 $aWhat do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection.
520 8 $aPlausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems from the power of individuals to achieve goodness simply by doing the best they can to discover and perform correct actions. If people enjoy the same degree of natural capacity to try, all of us are offered the same opportunities for moral self-fulfillment. To believe this is to believe in equality.
520 8 $aThis truly interdisciplinary work not only proposes the authors' own rationale but also provides an effective deconstruction of several other contemporary theories of equality, while it engages historical, philosophical, and Christian accounts as well.
650 0 $aEquality$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aEquality$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002556
650 0 $aEquality before the law.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044505
700 1 $aBrennan, Patrick M.,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98073467
830 0 $aNew forum books.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98007701
852 00 $boff,glx$hHM146$i.C66 1999