When Is Inequality Fair?

Recent literature on responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism has suggested that an opposition to unchosen inequality on the grounds of unfairness is compatible with a range of accounts as to which inequalities are fair. I argue that forms of responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism face a challenge i...

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Autor principal: Elford, Gideon 1980- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2018]
En: Ethical theory and moral practice
Año: 2018, Volumen: 21, Número: 5, Páginas: 1205-1218
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NCC Ética social
VA Filosofía
Otras palabras clave:B Luck Egalitarianism
B Desert
B Equality
B Responsibility
B Justicia
B Inequality
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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Sumario:Recent literature on responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism has suggested that an opposition to unchosen inequality on the grounds of unfairness is compatible with a range of accounts as to which inequalities are fair. I argue that forms of responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism face a challenge in the construction of such accounts; namely to explain the fairness of such inequalities specifically, as opposed to their being merely justified in a broader sense. I illustrate the nature of this challenge through an interesting parallel with an issue in value theory in the form of the so-called 'wrong kind of reason' problem.
ISSN:1572-8447
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9963-x