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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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2018]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Année: 2018, Volume: 21, Numéro: 5, Pages: 1205-1218 |
Classifications IxTheo: | NCC Éthique sociale VA Philosophie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Luck Egalitarianism
B Desert B Equality B Équité B Responsibility B Inequality |
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Résumé: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9963-x |