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What Is the Point of Equality
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The authors argues that the problems stem from a flawed understanding of the point of equality and argues that in focusing on correcting a supposed cosmic injustice, egalitarian writing has lost sight of the distinctively political aims of egalitarianism.Abstract:
This chapter argues that the problems stem from a flawed understanding of the point of equality. It also argues that in focusing on correcting a supposed cosmic injustice, egalitarian writing has lost sight of the distinctively political aims of egalitarianism. The chapter presents a series of cases in which luck egalitarianism generates injustice. It shows that the reasons luck egalitarians offer for refusing to come to the aid of the victims of bad option luck express a failure to treat these unfortunates with equal respect and concern. The chapter suggests that the reasons luck egalitarians offer for coming to the aid of the victims of bad brute luck express disrespect for them. Where luck egalitarians tend to be either harsh or paternalistic toward the victims of bad option luck, they seem compassionate toward the victims of bad brute luck.read more
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Equality of Opportunity
TL;DR: The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin, 1981a, DworkIN, 1981b,.
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Equality of Opportunity
TL;DR: The Handbook of Income Distribution as mentioned in this paper summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity and provides evidence of population views from surveys and experiments concerning conceptions of equality, summarizing the empirical literature on inequality of opportunity to date.
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Equality of Opportunity
TL;DR: The authors explored the concept of equality of opportunity, particularly as it has been frequently used in the sociology of education, and used it as an explanatory concept when discussing class differences in access to privileged educational institutions.
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The Moral Significance of Class
TL;DR: The Moral Significance of Class as discussed by the authors analyzes the moral aspects of people's experience of class inequalities and shows how people are valued in a context in which their life-chances and achievements are objectively affected by the lottery of birth class, and by forces which have little to do with their moral qualities or other merits.
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Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions.
TL;DR: This work evaluates three systems for allocation of very scarce medical interventions and recommends an alternative system-the complete lives system-which prioritises younger people who have not yet lived a complete life, and also incorporates prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value principles.
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A pragmatic theory of responsibility for the egalitarian planner
TL;DR: Articuler l'ethique egalitaire dans sa forme concrete afin qu'elle puisse etre appliquee dans des situations sociales actuelles par le planificateur egalitariste, tel est le but de l'A.
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Why Surfers Should Be Fed - the Liberal Case for An Unconditional Basic Income
TL;DR: This article argued that a defensible liberal theory of justice, that is truly committed to an equal concern for all and to nondiscrimination among conceptions of the good life, does justify, under appropriate factual conditions, a substantial unconditional basic income.
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Liberalism, distributive subjectivism, and equal opportunity for welfare
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Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities
TL;DR: In this article, a feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment of persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood, but displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized.
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Rights and Individual Well‐Being
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the primacy of individual rights represents the individual's standpoint against the public good or against the requirements of others generally, and that the conflict between individual and general good as being central to rights misconstrues the surface features of rights.