In this defence of affirmative action, Walter Feinberg moves the debate beyond the inadequate framework of economic issues to develop a theory of affirmative action that allows for a more refined understanding of its uses and misuses. He shows that affirmative action has three morally defensible goals. First, it seeks to correct systematic ruptures in the exercise of the principle of equal opportunity. Second, it seeks to advance the standing of groups whose members have been discriminated against because of certain ascribed characteristics such as sex or skin colour. Third, it attempts to address a historical debt.
- ISBN10 0807736988
- ISBN13 9780807736982
- Publish Date 30 November 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Teachers' College Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English