The Shocking Truth About Fairness, by Lionel Page.
The idea that ruling ideas about fairness are an ideological veneer used to placate dominated groups is, however, unsatisfactory. If what matters are actual relations of power, why do powerful people need justifications in the domain of ideas? What role do these justifications play?
I think "unsatisfactory" is the right word. Everyone uses justifications for what they do, except in cases of extreme power imbalance. But this cannot be the whole story. Perhaps strange women lying in ponds distributing swords IS a good basis for government.
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This 'fairness' argument is interesting to me for several reasons; one of them is that it plays with examples familiar to me, such as the diya. I'll think about it a bit.
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ReplyDeleteI thought it was fascinating how both side instinctively made arguments about fairness, even though they both knew that it would ultimately come down to force.
I included this book on my list of books about early America
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