Against fairness / Stephen T. Asma.
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Even Jesus had a favorite
- Saints and favorites
- Fairness, tribes, and nephews
- Classic cases of favoritism
- To thy own tribe be true: biological favoritism
- Moral gravity
- The biochemistry of favoritism
- Humans are wired for favoritism
- A healthy addiction
- Flexible favoritism
- Kin selection
- Rational or emotional motives
- Conflicting brain systems
- Facts and values
- In praise of exceptions
- Building the grid of impartiality
- Going off the grid
- Friendship and favoritism
- Reasonable favoritism
- "But, Dad, that's not fair!"
- The fusion of feelings and ideas
- Sowing the seeds of confusion: sharing
- Sowing the seeds of confusion: open minds
- Envy and fairness
- Excellence, fairness, and favoritism
- The circle of favors: global perspectives
- Chinese favoritism
- Face culture
- Indian favoritism
- Disentangling nepotism and corruption
- Disentangling tribalism and tragedy
- "Your people shall be my people?"
- Minorities, majorities, and favoritism
- Affirmative action and favoritism
- The finite stretch
- Feeling the stones with your feet
- Because you're mine, I walk the line
- The virtues of favoritism
- You can't love humanity. You can only love people
- The future of favoritism
- The archbishop and the chambermaid.