Liberty, Equality, and Plurality Edited by Larry May, Christine Sistare, and Jonathan Schonsheck 312 pages, 6 x 9 An AMINTAPHIL volume Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-0847-8, $45.00 Liberty and equality are often thought of as inseparable ideals; yet what furthers one often diminishes the other, as is seen when colleges seek to enact "hate speech codes" that abridge free expression in the interest of protecting minorities. This collection of orginial articles presents arguments in the ongoing debate among social and political philosophers regarding the nature and relationship of liberty and equality and considers their potential conflict in a pluralistic society. Liberty, Equality, and Plurality offers new approaches to a set of longstanding concerns in social ethics and legal theory by addressing issues of conceptualization, of institutional and legal structure, and of practical application to multicultural cases. The first group of articles considers the compatibility of liberty and equality and includes discussion of issues such as the redistribution of wealth and the relationship of freedom to responsibility. The second section examines the application of law and the limits of liberty, using an applied ethics approach to discuss cases dealing with taxation and poverty, freedom of speech, and medical choices like assisted suicide. The final section looks at equality and the clash of cultures by discussing issues like tolerance, hate speech, and the nexus of religious freedom and medical refusal. The contributors are all renowned specialists in social and legal philosophy, jurisprudence, and political science, and represent a wide range of socio-political and jurisprudential perspectives. By interweaving the Lockean and Rousseauian strands of democratic thought, they seek ways by which we might arrive at a just society. Contents Liberty, Equality, and Distributive Justice Jan Narveson Reconciling Liberty and Equality, or Why Libertarians Must Be Socialists James P. Sterba The Foundations of Ethics and the Conflict between Liberty and Equality David Phillips The Conflict Resolved? Dworkin on Liberty and Equality Steven Lee Freedom versus Equality: A False Antithesis Alistair M. Macleod The Compatibility of Freedom, Equality, and a Communitarian Notion of the Self Patricia H. Werhane Liberty and Equality in Neonatal Intensive Care Natalie Dandekar Liberty, Equality, Eternity: The Case for Assisted Suicide Robert C. L. Moffat Punishment, Family, and State Deirdre Golash False Light Wade L. Robison Poverty, Equality, and Taxation under the Rule of Law: A Tension within Classical Liberalism Kenneth Henley Liberty, Equality, and Liberal Toleration Emily R. Gill A Nonpunitive, Compensatory Remedy for Discriminatory Abusive Speech Diana Tietjens Meyers All Words Are Not Created Equal Joan McGregor Religious Freedom and Medical Refusal Richard T. De George Parental Refusals of Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds: Pediatric Ethics and the Children of Christian Scientists Kenneth Kipnis Economic Equality in the United States and Japan Richard B. Parker LARRY MAY, professor of philosophy at Washington University, is the author of Sharing Responsibility and The Socially Reponsive Self, and coeditor of Groups and Group Rights. CHRISTINE SISTARE, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics, is the author of Responsibility and Criminal Liability and the editor of Punishment: Social Control and Coercion. She is also coeditor of Groups and Group Rights, published by the University Press of Kansas. JONATHAN SCHONSHECK is professor of philosophy at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, and author of On Criminalization.   Home | About the Press | Recent Awards | Contact Us | Order New Books: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series Books in Print: | By Author | By Subject | By Title | By Series ©2007 University Press of Kansas 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, KS 66045-4444 Phone (785) 864-4155; Fax (785) 864-4586