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DESCRIPTION:The Politics of Race\, Immigration\, Class\, and Ethnicity (PRI
 CE) Initiative would like to invite you to the next meeting of our 2022-23
  working group series. Our presenter will be Cornell's own Jill Frank\, Pr
 ofessor and the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government. \n\n
   "Rethinking Democratic Equality" \n\nTuesday\, April 18th\, 2023 at 12-1
 :30 PM ET. MVR 1219 (Martha Van Rensselaer Hall). Lunch will be provided. 
 Please register for the workshop here. A paper\, which participants will b
 e expected to have read\, will be distributed to registered participants i
 n the coming weeks.\n\n \n\n ABSTRACT\n\nRethinking Democratic Equality \n
 \n Influential strands in politics\, philosophy\, and law treat equality a
 s a kind of sameness\, given by nature\, reason\, or God\, somehow inheren
 t in human beings\, sometimes from birth. Versions of this understanding o
 f equality became fixtures in social contract theories of 17th-century Wes
 tern political thought\, were enshrined in 18th-20th century Declarations 
 of rights\, and in the 1776 US Declaration of Independence’s “self-evi
 dent” truth that “all men are created equal.” They appear\, too\, in
  abiding commitments among contemporary Anglo-American philosophers to equ
 ality as a deep\, basic\, moral given or fact. Recovering the ancient Gree
 k distinction between arithmetic and geometric equality\, Rethinking Democ
 ratic Equality explores the resonances between equality as a given samenes
 s and arithmetic equality\, and the relation of these to the current US Su
 preme Court majority’s jurisprudence of “colorblind equality.” Putti
 ng the account of geometric equality in the texts of Plato and Aristotle i
 n conversation with dissenting Supreme Court opinions and contemporary pol
 itical philosophy\, the paper seeks to forge an understanding of equality 
 that\, unlike “colorblind equality\,” can be accountable to the histor
 ical and ongoing effects of systemic racial inequality. This is an equalit
 y that is made not given\, and dependent not on sameness but on difference
 s (plural).
LOCATION:Martha Van Rensselaer Hall\, MVR 1219
SUMMARY:PRICE Event - Rethinking Democratic Equality\, Jill Frank
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/price_event_-_rethinking_dem
 ocratic_equality_jill_frank
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