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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主要作者: Elford, Gideon 1980- (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2018]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2018, 卷: 21, 發布: 5, Pages: 1205-1218
IxTheo Classification:NCC Social ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Luck Egalitarianism
B Desert
B Equality
B Responsibility
B 公平
B Inequality
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總結: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9963-x