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Bloomsbury Ethics Ser.: Luck Egalitarianism by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101472570421
ISBN-139781472570420
eBay Product ID (ePID)212747853
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameLuck Egalitarianism
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy, Sociology / General, General, Political, Curiosities & Wonders
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaLaw, Philosophy, Référence, Social Science
AuthorKasper Lippert-Rasmussen
SeriesBloomsbury Ethics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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LCCN2016-304564
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsLippert-Rasmussen's book makes a tremendous contribution to our understanding of luck egalitarianism and will no doubt become a central reference point for both its proponents and its critics., "This brilliant and challenging book ... Illuminates different conceptions of luck, as found in the philosophical literature, clarifies the difference between telic and deontic equality, and explains the 'levelling down' problem and the way that this affects luck egalitarians, and egalitarians more generally." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, "Lippert-Rasmussen's book makes a tremendous contribution to our understanding of luck egalitarianism and will no doubt become a central reference point for both its proponents and its critics." - Ethics "This brilliant and challenging book ... Illuminates different conceptions of luck, as found in the philosophical literature, clarifies the difference between telic and deontic equality, and explains the 'levelling down' problem and the way that this affects luck egalitarians, and egalitarians more generally." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Lippert-Rasmussen's book offers both a reliable and critically sophisticated guide to the debate on luck egalitarianism from one of its shrewdest and most subtle contributors, and also advances several new interesting ideas and proposals ... This book is a model of its kind. It should be read by everyone with an interest in contemporary debates on distributive justice." - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice "The book provides a well-balanced overview of luck egalitarianism with a well-chosen ordering of the different chapters ... An excellent introduction." - Ethical Perspectives
Dewey Decimal320.011
Table Of ContentChapter 1. Luck egalitarianism and some close and distant relatives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 What is luck egalitarianism? 1.3 What is attractive about luck egalitarianism? 1.4 Three important luck egalitarians: Dworkin 1.5 Three important luck egalitarians: Arneson 1.6 Three important luck egalitarians: Cohen 1.7 Luck egalitarianism and other views 1.8 Summary Chapter 2. Why equality? 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Formal equality 2.3 Equality of human beings 2.4 Williams on the idea of equality 2.5 Rawls on range properties 2.6 Respect and opaqueness 2.7 A different proposal 2.8 Summary Chapter 3. Luck 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Different kinds of luck 3.3 Thin luck 3.4 Thick luck 3.5 Independent notions of luck 3.6 How much luck is there? 3.7 Constitutive luck 3.8 Option luck versus brute luck 3.9 Neutralizing luck and equality 3.10 Bad luck versus good luck 3.11 Summary Chapter 4. Equality of what? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Welfare 4.3 The specification objection 4.4 The disability objection 4.5 The offensive preference objection 4.6 The experience and snobbish tastes objection 4.7 The non-instrumental concern objection 4.8 Dworkin's resourcist view 4.9 Sen's capability metric 4.10 Summary Chapter 5. Telic and deontic luck egalitarianism 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Some distinctions 5.3 Telic versus deontic and the scope of equality 5.4 The levelling down objection 5.5 Telic egalitarianism and the levelling down objection 5.6 Deontic egalitarianism and the levelling down objection 5.7 Egalitarian responses 5.8 Summary Chapter 6. The scope of luck egalitarianism 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Whole lives 6.3 Generations 6.4 Groups 6.5 States 6.6 Individuals who are neither persons nor human beings 6.7 Summary Chapter 7. Social relations egalitarianism versus luck egalitarianism 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Social relations egalitarianism 7.3 Anderson's democratic equality 7.4 Humiliation and harshness 7.5 What is at stake? 7.6 The source of the disagreement between social relations and luck egalitarians? 7.7 Summary Chapter 8. Other values 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Freedom 8.3 Demandingness 8.4 Community 8.5 Publicity and stability 8.6 Reflections 8.7 Conclusion Bibliography Index
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
SynopsisAre we responsible for other people who are born worse off than we are? What justifies the presumption that equality is just? Would it be better to enforce a state of equality where everyone is much worse off but equally so? Is what matters not whether people can relate to one another as equals, but whether they have the same quantity of resources? Luck Egalitarianism addresses these and other important questions-all deriving from the intuition that differences in how well people are doing which do not reflect differential responsibility are unjust.. . Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen tackles all the major questions concerning luck egalitarianism, providing deep, penetrating and original discussion of recent academic discourses on distributive justice as well as responses to some of the main objections in the literature. This systematic, theoretical introduction illustrates the broader picture of distributive justice and enables the reader to understand the core intuitions underlying (and sometimes conflicting with) luck egalitarianism. The book also interrogates applied distributive justice by addressing issues such as the levelling down objection, justice in health care, cultural minority rights and the economic incentives that influence the debate between freedom of occupation and luck egalitarian justice., Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen tackles all the major questions concerning luck egalitarianism, providing deep, penetrating and original discussion of recent academic discourses on distributive justice as well as responses to some of the main objections in the literature. It offers a new answer to the "Why equality?" and "Equality of what?" questions, and provides a robust luck egalitarian response to the recent criticisms of luck egalitarianism by social relations egalitarians. This systematic, theoretical introduction illustrates the broader picture of distributive justice and enables the reader to understand the core intuitions underlying, or conflicting with, luck egalitarianism.
LC Classification NumberJC575
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