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Equality Renewed - Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Paperback)
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Equality Renewed - Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of
equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of
equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that
egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more
equal in the constituents of a good life. Inequality is a social
ill because of the damage it does to human flourishing: unequal
distribution of wealth can have the effect that some people are
poorly housed, badly nourished, ill-educated, unhappy or
uncultured, among other things. When we seek to make people more
equal our concern is not just resources or property, but how people
fare under one distribution or another. Ultimately, the best answer
to the question, 'equality of what?,' is some conception of
flourishing, since whatever policies or principles we adopt, it is
flourishing that we hope will be more equal as a result of our
endeavours. Sypnowich calls for both retrieval and innovation. What
is to be retrieved is the ideal of equality itself, which is often
assumed as a background condition of theories of justice, yet at
the same time, dismissed as too homogenising, abstract and rigid a
criterion for political argument. We must retrieve the ideal of
equality as a central political principle. In doing so, she casts
doubt on the value of focussing on cultural difference, and rejects
the idea of neutrality that dominates contemporary political
philosophy in favour of a view of the state as enabling the
betterment of its citizens.
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