Philosophy Talk. The Fairness Fixation

Abstract/Contents

Abstract

Imagine that your eight-year-old son arrives home boasting that he won the race that day in gym class. Right as your heart begins to swell with pride, he reveals that he wasn't the only winner_the whole class won the race. The gym teacher, it turns out, thought that naming just one winner would be unfair. If our obsession with fairness leads to absurdities like this, why should we be so committed to being fair? Why not reserve the best we have to offer for those who actually deserve it? Can there be justice, kindness, and compassion in a world without fairness? John and Ken play favorites with Stephen Asma from Columbia College Chicago, author of Against Fairness: In Favor of Favoritism.

Description

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	November 2, 2014
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

Creators/Contributors

Speaker	Perry, John, 1943-
Speaker	Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019
Producer	Ben Manilla Productions, Inc.

Subjects

Subject	Philosophy
Subject	Equality
Subject	Preferences (Philosophy)
Genre	Radio talk shows

Bibliographic information

philosophytalk.org show page	Title The Fairness Fixation
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	361.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bq213pg3251
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Philosophy Talk, 2002-

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