PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nepotism, Meritocracy, Affirmative Action
15 Apr 2016
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Thomas nagel will address the quesion of whether or not reverse discriminaion which is described in subsecion (2) of sec. His answer: maybe not on grounds of jusice but they may be jusiiable on other grounds. We can think of such programs as a four step process involving four key elements. An efort is made to abolish any deliberate barriers that may exist keeping a discriminated group from desirable posiions: e. g. , through enfranchisement or sufrage; admitance to universiies. A recogniion of innate biases leads to a conscious efort to be imparial in selecion processes involving individuals from discriminated groups: e. g. , through increased atenion to empirical facts about exising biases against women or other groups) A need to balance inequality in one part of the social system (the low-level inequality experienced by the discriminated group) by introducing a reverse inequality at a diferent point (351)
