Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice

by de la Mora, Gonzalo Fernandez

• ISBN13: 9780595002610
• ISBN10: 0595002617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc

Author Biography

Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora, born in Barcelona in 1924, studied law and philosophy at the Universities of Madrid and Bonn

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Historical Problem	p. 1
The Greeks	p. 3
The Presocratics	p. 3
The Writers of the Fifth Century	p. 4
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle	p. 7
China, Fascination, The Evil Eye	p. 11
Epicureans and Stoics	p. 13
The Latins	p. 14
Cicero	p. 14
Horace and Ovid	p. 15
Seneca, Dion and Plutarch	p. 16
Sacred Scripture	p. 19
The Old Testament	p. 19
Paul of Tarsus	p. 20
The Fathers of the Church	p. 21
Clement, Justin and Tertullian	p. 21
Cyprian and Basil	p. 22
Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, Chrysologus	p. 24
Caesareus, Isidore and Gregory	p. 26
The Medievals	p. 28
John of Salisbury	p. 28
Thomas Aquinas	p. 29
Raymond Lull	p. 30
Dante	p. 31
The Renaissance	p. 33
Luis Vives	p. 33
Luis de Granada, Melchor Cano, Miguel Sabuco	p. 34
Bacon	p. 36
The Baroque	p. 37
Quevedo and Nieremberg	p. 37
Descartes and Spinoza	p. 39
Flechier and Feijoo	p. 41
The Moderns	p. 43
Hume and Smith	p. 43
Kant	p. 46
Holbach and Stael	p. 47
The Contemporaries	p. 49
Schopenhauer	p. 49
Marx	p. 51
Nietzsche	p. 52
Freud	p. 54
Unamuno	p. 55
Scheler	p. 57
Klein	p. 58
Schoeck	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 61
The Analysis	p. 63
The Problem	p. 65
Conceptualization	p. 67
Definition, Origin, Typology	p. 67
Axiophile Envy	p. 71
Hidden Envy	p. 73
Confusing Envy	p. 75
Universal Envy	p. 77
Prefabricated Envy	p. 79
Self-punishing Envy	p. 80
Evaluation	p. 82
Disfunctional Envy	p. 82
Mistaken Envy	p. 87
Envy as a Political Factor	p. 91
Origin of the Division	p. 91
Social Justice	p. 93
Ideological Correlation	p. 95
Egalitarianism and Orthodoxy	p. 97
Social Development	p. 98
Envy, Hierarchy and the State	p. 100
The Role of the Minorities	p. 100
Hierarchical Ordering by the State	p. 101
The Hunction and Division of Powers	p. 103
Just Hierarchical Distribution	p. 104
Party Rule and Selectivity	p. 105
Envy and Inverse Selectivity	p. 107
Favoritism and Meritocracy	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 111
The Defenses	p. 113
The Flight from Envy	p. 113
The Simulation	p. 114
Courtesy	p. 116
Overcoming and Suppressing Envy	p. 118
The Possible Options	p. 118
Emulation	p. 119
The Work Well Done	p. 121
What is Valuable in the Genitive	p. 121
Solidarity of the Species	p. 122
Sympathy	p. 123
Conclusions	p. 125
Creative Inequality	p. 129
Introduction	p. 131
The Inequalities	p. 136
Metaphysical Inequality	p. 136
Physical Inequality	p. 139
Zoological Inequality	p. 141
Human Inequality	p. 144
Generalities	p. 144
Genetic Inequality	p. 146
Noetic Inheritance	p. 148
Social Inequality	p. 151
Vital Inequality	p. 154
Ultraterrestrial Inequality	p. 155
The Egalitarian Ideal	p. 157
Equality Before the Law	p. 157
Political Equality	p. 160
Equality of Opportunities	p. 166
Economic Equality	p. 172
Conclusions	p. 177
The Reverse Side of Ideology	p. 177
The Impossible Biological Equality	p. 179
The Impossible Social Equality	p. 180
The Individual Instinct	p. 183
Metaphysical Equality	p. 184
Egalitarian Envy	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
Index	p. 201
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