Luck Egalitarianism
- London Bloomsbury Publishing 2016
- 259p
includes index and biblioraphy
1 Luck egalitarianism and some close distant relatives ...1 1. Introduction ...1 2 What is luck egalitarianism ...1 3 What is attractive about luck egalitarianism ...7 4 Three important luck egalitarians: Dworkin ...11 5 Three important luck egalitarians: Arneson ...19 6 Three important luck egalitarians : Cohen ...22 7 Other distributive views ...25 8 Summary ...33 2 Why equality ...35 1 Introduction ...35 2 Formal equality ...36 3 Equality of human beings ...39 4 Williams on the idea of equality ...40 5 Rawls on range properties ...42 6 Respect and opaqueness ...43 7 A different proposal ...48 8 Summary ...53 3 Luck ...55 1 Introduction ...55 2 Different kinds of luck ...56 3 Thin luck ...57 4 Thick luck ...59 5 Independent notions of luck ...62 6 How much luck is there ...63 7 Constituive luck ...66 8 Option luck versus brute luck ...67 9 neutralizing luck and equality ...72 10 Bad luck versus good luck ...75 4 Equality of what ...77 1 Introduction ...77 2 Welfare ...78 3 The specification objection ...82 4 The disability objection ...84 5 The offensive preference objection ...87 6 The expensive and snobbish tastes objections ...93 7 The non-instrumental concern objection ...98 8 Dworkin`s resourcist view ...101 9 Sen`s capability metric ...108 10 Summary ...111 5 Telic and deontic luck egalitarianism ...113 1 Introduction ...113 2 Some distinctions ...115 3 Telic versus deontic and the scope of equality ...122 4 The levelling down objection ...129 5 Telic egalitarianism and the levelling down objection ....135 6 Deontic egalitarianism and the levelling down objection ...140 7 Egalitarian responses ...147 8 Summary ...149 6 The scope of luck egalitarianism ...151 1 Introduction ..151 2 Whole lives ...152 3 Generation ...156 4 Groups ...161 5 States ...165 6 Individuals that are neither persons nor human beings ...173 7 Summary ...178 7 Social relations egalitarianism versus luck egalitarianism ...179 1 Introduction ...179 2 Social relations egalitarianism ...180 3 Anderson`s democratic equality ...184 4 Humiliation and harshness ...189 5 What is at stake ...194 6 The source of the disagreement between social relations and luck egalitarians ...201 7 Summary ...206 8 Other values ...209 1 Introduction ...209 2 Freedom ...211 3 Demandingness ...216 4 Community ...220 5 Publicity and stability ...226 6 Reflections ...231 7 Summary ...239