Egalitarianism, the view that equality matters, attracts a great
deal of attention amongst contemporary political theorists. And yet
it has turned out to be surprisingly difficult to provide a fully
satisfactory egalitarian theory. The cutting-edge articles in
Egalitarianism move the debate forward. They are written by some of
the leading political philosophers in the field. Recent issues in
the debate over equality are given careful consideration: the
distinction between 'telic' and 'deontic' egalitarianism;
prioritarianism and the so-called 'levelling down objection' to
egalitarianism; whether egalitarian justice should have 'whole
lives' or some subset thereof as its temporal focus; the
implications of Scanlon's contractualist account of the value of
choice for egalitarian justice; and the question of whether
non-human animals fall within the scope of egalitarianism and if
so, what the implications are. Numerous 'classic' issues receive a
new treatment too: how egalitarianism can be justified and how, if
at all, this value should be combined with other values such as
desert, liberty and sufficiency; how to define the 'worst off' for
the purposes of Rawls' difference principle; Elizabeth Anderson's
feminist account of 'equality of relations'; how equality applies
to risky choices and, in particular, whether it is justifiable to
restrict the freedom of suppliers who wish to release goods that
confer different levels of risk on consumers, depending on their
ability to pay. Finally, the implications of egalitarianism and
prioritarianism for health care are scrutinized. The contributors
to the volume are: Richard Arneson, Linda Barclay, Thomas
Christiano, Nils Holtug, Susan Hurley, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen,
Dennis McKerlie, Ingmar Persson, Bertil Tungodden, Peter
Vallentyne, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.
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