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DOI	10.1007/s10677-013-9442-3
	Unjust Equalities
	Albertsen, Andreas; Midtgaard, Soren Flinch
通讯作者	Midtgaard, SF (corresponding author), Aarhus Univ, Aarhus, Denmark.
来源期刊	ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE
ISSN	1386-2820
EISSN	1572-8447
出版年	2014
卷号	17 期号:2 页码:335-346
英文摘要	In the luck egalitarian literature, one influential formulation of luck egalitarianism does not specify whether equalities that do not reflect people's equivalent exercises of responsibility are bad with regard to inequality. This equivocation gives rise to two competing versions of luck egalitarianism: asymmetrical and symmetrical luck egalitarianism. According to the former, while inequalities due to luck are unjust, equalities due to luck are not necessarily so. The latter view, by contrast, affirms the undesirability of equalities as well as inequalities insofar as they are due to luck. The symmetrical view, we argue, is by far the more compelling, both by internal luck egalitarian standards and in light of the external rightist emphasis on choice and responsibility to which luck egalitarianism may partly be seen as a response. Our main case for the symmetrical view is that when some people, against a background of equal opportunities, do not exercise their responsibility to the same degree as others, they cannot justifiably call for equalizing measures to be put in place. Indeed, such measures would be positively unfair. The symmetrical view, accordingly, rejects compensation in such cases, whereas the asymmetrical view, implausibly, enjoins it. We also examine two objections to this argument. First, that this view fails to qualify as genuinely egalitarian, instead collapsing the notion of equality into the notion of desert. Second, that the opposing asymmetrical view, in contrast to the symmetrical view, can draw support from its compatibility with sufficientarian concerns. Both objections are rebutted. We conclude that luck egalitarians are best served by endorsing the symmetrical, luck-neutralizing stance.
英文关键词	Luck egalitarianism Unjust equalities Sufficientarianism Desert Shlomi Segall
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000333243800011
WOS关键词	BRUTE LUCK ; OPPORTUNITY ; SUFFICIENCY
WOS类目	Philosophy
WOS研究方向	Philosophy
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/361328
作者单位	[Albertsen, Andreas; Midtgaard, Soren Flinch] Aarhus Univ, Aarhus, Denmark
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Albertsen, Andreas,Midtgaard, Soren Flinch. Unjust Equalities[J],2014,17(2):335-346.
APA	Albertsen, Andreas,&Midtgaard, Soren Flinch.(2014).Unjust Equalities.ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE,17(2),335-346.
MLA	Albertsen, Andreas,et al."Unjust Equalities".ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE 17.2(2014):335-346.