[lit-ideas] Re: WHo is afraid of the anti-egalitarians?
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:29:41 -0230
And as Kant was wont to say, it's the Principle of Equal Respect for Persons
(PERP) that's the thing, not a Principle of Equal Treatment of Persons.
And as my students are wont to say: "PERP me baby one more time."
Cheers, Walter
Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:
> T Fjeld wrote:
>
> "Nobody is seriously against equality today. What we usually hear is that
> the disadvantaged should be brought up to the level of those of privilege.
> This is what we should think of as a process of LEVELLING UP."
>
> Well, let me be Outis.
>
> I, seriously, dislike most talk of equality, and for many of the reasons
> Nietzsche offers. Obviously, the act of 'levelling up' the disadvantaged,
> whatever that might mean, is not an act of equality, since it identifies
> one group over another. I find that the rhetoric of equality is more often
> than not in the service of a particular politics which attempts to clothe
> itself in a kind of moral righteousness. After all, who in their right mind
> would be opposed to equality?
>
> I try my best to not treat people equally. My relationship to my wife is
> different to my relationships with other women. Or other men, for that
> matter. I treat my 16yr old daughter differently than I treat my 10yr old
> daughter. I act differently towards a student who is struggling to pass my
> class than a student who is getting an A. And yes, not all my students get
> an equal grade. I work hard at that.
>
> In general, I find it a lack of manners and rather distasteful to insist
> that all people should be treated equally.
>
> Seriously on the level,
>
> Phil
>
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