Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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Central European University
Nador u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
on
Social Equality, Relative Poverty and Marginalised Groups
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Defenders of social equality need to provide an account of the main features of the societies they support. This is a significant challenge. In other work I have argued that social equality should be understood in terms of the avoidance of certain asymmetric and alienated social relations, which is to say that a socially equal society is one that avoids certain social inequalities and other undesirable social relations. In this paper I draw on social scientific literature on poverty and on childhood development to explore some forms of social exclusion that would be avoided in a society of equals, and outline, in abstract, some strategies for diminishing social inequality.