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The notion that all humans are equal is the defining idea of our age. Yet, it is an idea we do not live up to. People are excluded and discriminated against on the basis of sex, gender, race, religion, sexuality.
In this urgent and relevant talk, Anne Phillips argues that we need shift how we think of equality. Human equality is not something we need to prove or justify; it should not be conditional on having the right kind of human nature, on meeting some idealised notion of the human, or on ignoring what makes us different. Rather, human equality is a claim and a commitment that we can -- and should -- make to one another.
Anne Phillips is a Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. She has been a feminist since the days of the Women’s Liberation Movement, and much of her work explores issues within feminist political theory. Among other things, she has written about the relationship between
equality and difference; the over-representation of men in politics; areas of tension between multiculturalism and women’s rights; and what goes wrong when we think of our bodies as property. Her books include Engendering Democracy, The Politics of Presence, Multiculturalism
without Culture, Our Bodies Whose Property? and The Politics of the Human. She is a member of the British Academy and has honorary degrees from the Universities of Aalborg and Bristol. She lives in London and has two sons.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx