The first in Professor Waldron's series of lectures "One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality" will take as its starting point the work of the Rev. Hastings Randall, an Anglican clergyman teaching at New College, Oxford, who elaborated a theory of human inequality in 1907. Lecture abstract In 1907, an Anglican clergyman teaching at New College, Oxford elaborated a theory of human inequality in Volume 1 of his book, The Theory of Good and Evil: A Treatise on Moral Philosophy. Hastings’ theory is highly offensive to modern ears: for it is a form of philosophical racism. But we will examine it — first, because it gives us a very clear picture of the position that basic equality has to deny; and second, because it hints at insidious ways in which rejections of basic equality might be revived. Lecture video HTML This article was published on 2024-08-28
