Article, 2024

Consensual discrimination

The Philosophical Quarterly, ISSN 1467-9213, 0031-8094, Page pqae039, 10.1093/pq/pqae039

Contributors

Bengtson, Andreas 0000-0001-9224-8756 (Corresponding author) [1] Munch, Lauritz Aastrup 0000-0002-3510-5422 [1]

Affiliations

  1. [1] Aarhus University
  2. [NORA names: AU Aarhus University; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD]

Abstract

Abstract What makes discrimination morally bad? In this paper, we discuss the putative badness of a case of consensual discrimination to show that prominent accounts of the badness of discrimination—appealing, inter alia, to harm, disrespect, and inequality—fail to provide a satisfactory answer to this question. In view of this, we present a more promising account.

Keywords

Bad, alia, answers, cases, discrimination, inter alia, satisfactory answer

Funders

  • Danish National Research Foundation
  • Carlsberg Foundation

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