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  title info:
    title: Why inequality matters
    sub title: luck egalitarianism, its meaning and value
  name:
    name part: Segall, Shlomi
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on its instrumental value and its favorable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty over whether it has a non-instrumental or intrinsic value that can be demonstrated. In this project, Shlomi Segall explores and defends the view that it does. He argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution. Instead, he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves. Assessing the strength of competing accounts, such as sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, he brings together for the first time discussions of the moral value of equality with luck or responsibility sensitive accounts of distributive justice. His book will interest readers in political and moral philosophy.
  table of contents: Part I. Egalitarianism: 1. The variety of objections to equality; 2. Why inequality matters; 3. When does inequality matter?; 4. Who is inequality bad for? -- Part II. Alternatives to Egalitarianism: 5. What is the point of sufficiency?; 6. Prioritarianism and the person-affecting view; 7. Prioritarianism and time -- Part III. Chances and Choices: 8. Should egalitarians care about chances?; 9. The badness of voluntary inequalities.
  note: Shlomi Segall.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Equality
  subject:
    topic: Distributive justice
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Political
  classification: HM821 .S443 2016
  classification: 305
  identifier: 9781107129818
  identifier: 1107129818
  identifier: 9781107570313
  identifier: 2016015465
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160408
    record change date: 20160914160002.0
    record identifier: in00003724994