Equality and responsibility /
Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitari...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them together in a single distributive ideal. Underlying this ideal is the egalitarian intuition - the intuition that it is objectionable for some to be worse offthan others through no fault of their own. in a wide-ranging discussion, Lake tests that intuition from a variety of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 172 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-166) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191529214 0191529214 0199241740 9780199241743 9780191599743 0191599743 128194405X 9781281944054 |