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My visceral perception of brotherhood harmonizes with our best modern biological knowledge. Many people think that equality of human races represents a hope of liberal sentimentality probably squashed by the hard realities of history. They are wrong. This essay can be summarized in a single phrase, a motto if you will: Human equality is a contingent fact of history. Equality is not true by definition; it is neither an ethical principle nor a statement about norms of social action. It just worked out that way. A hundred different and plausible scenarios for human history would have yielded other results . They didn't happen. (en) |
