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-egalitarian theory of linguistic justice would look like, and, finally, what the emphasis on language teaches us about the validity of …In this article, we examine how language and linguistic membership might feature in luck egalitarianism, what a luck … standard luck-egalitarian assumptions. We show that belonging to one language group rather than another is a morally arbitrary …
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into the framework of an egalitarian theory of distributive justice. This article argues, however, that the project of … developing a responsibility-based conception of egalitarian justice is misconceived. The project represents an attempt to defuse … misrepresent the nature of our concern with equality as a value. …
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I distinguish four different interpretations of ‘equality of opportunity.’ We get four interpretations because a … neglected ambiguity in ‘opportunity’ intersects a well-known ambiguity in ‘equality.’ The neglected ambiguity holds … comparative and non-comparative conceptions of ‘equality.’ Among other things, distinguishing these four interpretations …
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Is equality a distributive value or does it rather point to the quality of social relationships? This article … criticizes the distributive character of luck egalitarian theories of justice and fleshes out the central characteristics of an … alternative, relational approach to equality. It examines a central objection to distributive theories: that such theories cannot …
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justice norms. That is, which sound reasons support claims to a relative share of the benefits of institutions that exist and … apply to individuals? Such norms may require strict equality, Rawls' Difference Principle, or other constraints on …
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International borders concentrate opportunities in some societies while limiting them in others. Borders also prevent those in the less favored societies from gaining access to opportunities available in the more favored ones. Both distributive effects of borders are treated here within a...
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The article begins by reconstructing the just distribution of the social bases of self-respect, a principle of justice … that is covert in Rawls’s writing. I argue that, for Rawls, justice mandates that each social basis for self-respect be … famous principles of justice - equal liberty and the difference principle. I then recall Rawls’s well-known confusion …
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It is commonly thought that when democratic states act wrongly, they should bear the costs of the harm they cause. However, since states are collective agents, their financial burdens pass on to their individual citizens. This fact raises important questions about the proper distribution of the...
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This paper argues that Cohen’s early work on Marxism, and his work in political philosophy, entails commitment to a distributive paradigm, that is, the view that exploitation obtains only if distributive injustice obtains. Cohen’s early espousal of that paradigm is explicitly...
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equality unattainable. Diversity and equality are incompatible, and attempts to promote one can only be made at the expense of … the other. In these circumstances, we should abandon the ideal of equality as incapable of offering us an adequate …
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