Martin Robb
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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My father and I nearly finished eating.
She alone remains unfed.
A sigh announces the completion of her task and the beginning of a well deserved respite.
She sits down to eat.
With a shrug and a smile, with a touch of ironic humor, she says, After all, I'm also a mother's child.
And from this story
And from the acknowledgement that we are all equally some mother's child, you build what you describe as a claim to equal equality, one that's an alternative to conceptions which dominate discourse in liberal political theory, concluding that an equality that could serve the reality of dependency is one that looks for measures that treat the dependency worker as solicitously as the dependency worker is expected to treat her child.
charge, that is an equality that recognizes the dependency worker too, is some mother's child.
So what might that look like in practice?
I think we do better on things like family leave.
Maybe not child care loss though.
Thank you.
I w I wanted to come on to ask you what you thought about current social policy.
But before I do, I was just interested that in talking about some mother's child you use the term connection based equality and about you talk about nested dependencies and you introduced this term dulia.
to describe what you call the social cooperation that depends on these nested relationships and obligations.
Could you briefly explain what you mean by dulia?
In the second part of the book, in your your extended debate with John Rawls on political liberalism and human dependency, you kind of extend you argue for extending the idea of dulia to the public domain.
You say that for a society to attend to the need for care and to do so justly, it's not sufficient for the dependency worker alone to be caring.
There must be principles that secure social institutions providing aid and support for dependent.
in their caring responsibilities.
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