What's Wrong with Lookism?

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What's Wrong with Lookism?

Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage

Philosophy: aesthetics Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy

Author: Andrew Mason

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Collection: New Topics in Applied Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: OUP Oxford

Published on: 27th June 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9780192675958


What''s Wrong with Lookism?

examines the morality of appearance discrimination in three contexts: employment decisions; the choice of friends or romantic partners; and the everyday practice of judging and commenting upon people''s looks. Andrew Mason develops a pluralist theory of what makes discrimination wrong that identifies three wrong-making features, namely, disrespect, deliberative unfairness, and contributing to unjust consequences, and demonstrates how the presence of one or more of these features in each of these contexts problematises the lookism that takes place in it.

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