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Luck Egalitarianism
Carl Knight
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Description for Luck Egalitarianism
An overview of and critical engagement with the key issues concerning luck egalitarianism. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
How should we decide which inequalities between people are justified, and which are unjustified? One answer is that such inequalities are only justified where there is a corresponding variation in responsible action or choice on the part of the persons concerned. This view, which has become known as 'luck egalitarianism', has come to occupy a central place in recent debates about distributive justice. This book is the first full length treatment of this significant development in contemporary political philosophy. Each of its three parts addresses a key question concerning the theory. Which version of luck egalitarian comes closest to realizing ... Read more
How should we decide which inequalities between people are justified, and which are unjustified? One answer is that such inequalities are only justified where there is a corresponding variation in responsible action or choice on the part of the persons concerned. This view, which has become known as 'luck egalitarianism', has come to occupy a central place in recent debates about distributive justice. This book is the first full length treatment of this significant development in contemporary political philosophy. Each of its three parts addresses a key question concerning the theory. Which version of luck egalitarian comes closest to realizing ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748638697
SKU
V9780748638697
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About Carl Knight
Carl Knight is a Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Research Foundation and the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. He is co-editor, with Zofia Stemplowska, of Distributive Justice and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Reviews for Luck Egalitarianism
How far does our responsibility for one another's well-being extend? At what point, if ever, is each person responsible for success or failure in running her own life? Carl Knight develops promising answers to these vexed questions and brings a judicious philosophical intelligence, strong common sense, and a knack for conceptual clarity to what is an unruly terrain. He surveys ... Read more