Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Equality for Inegalitarians
  • Cited by 27
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9780511841859
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841859
Subjects:
Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Information

Book description

This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice. Unlike luck egalitarians, who treat unchosen differences in people's circumstances as sources of unjust inequality to be overcome, Sher views such differences as pervasive and unavoidable features of the human situation. Appealing to an original account of what makes us moral equals, he argues that our interest in successfully negotiating life's ever-shifting contingencies is more basic than our interest in achieving any more specific goals. He argues, also, that the state's obligation to promote this interest supports a principled version of the view that what matters about resources, opportunity, and other secondary goods is only that each person have enough. The book opens up a variety of new questions, and offers a distinctive new perspective for scholars of political theory and political philosophy, and for those interested in distributive justice and luck egalitarianism.

Reviews

‘At once a magisterial overview of the field and a deeply original and important contribution, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary debates over justice and egalitarianism. Sher's book promises to change the contours of those debates in lasting ways.'

David McCabe - Colgate University, New York

‘[Sher] abandons the decades-long preoccupation with Rawlsianism and focuses exclusively on luck egalitarianism … the book is refreshing. … rich and sophisticated …’

Shlomi Segall Source: The Philosophical Quarterly

'The book is admirably concise. Problems with opposing views are illustrated with humorous, carefully chosen examples. The critical chapters (2-4) are carefully executed and ultimately persuasive. The early positive chapters (5-7) engage with some of the deepest questions in practical philosophy; they are engaging and thought-provoking. … It is no exaggeration to say that it is required reading for anyone interested in luck egalitarianism or sufficientism about distributive justice.'

Jason Raibley - Murphy Institute, Tulane University and California State University, Long Beach

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents
References
Bibliography
Ackerman, Bruce. Social Justice and the Liberal State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Anderson, Elizabeth. “What Is the Point of Equality?,” Ethics 109 (1999): 287–337.
Anderson, Elizabeth “How Should Egalitarians Cope with Market Risks?,” Theoretical Inquiries into Law 9 (2008): 239–70.
Arneson, Richard. “Distributive Ethics and Basic Capability Equality: ‘Good Enough’ Is not Enough,” in Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems. Edited by Kaufman, Alexander, pp. 17–43. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Arneson, Richard “Egalitarianism and the Undeserving Poor,” Journal of Political Philosophy 5 (1997): 327–50.
Arneson, Richard “Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare,” Philosophical Studies 56 (1989): 77–93.
Arneson, Richard “Luck Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism,” Ethics, 110 (2000): 339–49.
Arneson, Richard “Luck Egalitarianism: An Interpretation and Defense,” Philosophical Topics 32 (2004): 1–20.
Arneson, Richard “What, if Anything, Renders All Humans Morally Equal?,” in Singer and His Critics. Edited by Jamieson, Dale, pp. 103–28. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Banfield, Edward. The Unheavenly City. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968.
Barry, Nicholas. “Defending Luck Egalitarianism,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2006): 89–107.
Bratman, Michael. Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Brighouse, Harry, and Swift, Adam. “Equality, Priority, and Positional Goods,” Ethics 116 (2006): 471–97.
Carens, Joseph. Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Carter, Ian. “Basic Equality and the Site of Egalitarian Justice,” Economics and Philosophy 29 (2013): 21–41.
Carter, Ian “Respect and the Basis of Equality,” Ethics 121 (2011): 538–71.
Casal, Paula. “Why Sufficiency Is Not Enough,” Ethics 117 (2007): 296–326.
Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Cohen, Gerald. “Luck and Equality: A Reply to Hurley,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2006): 439–46.
Cohen, Gerald “On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice,” Ethics 99 (1989): 906–47.
Cohen, GeraldRescuing Justice and Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Dworkin, Ronald. “Equality, Luck and Hierarchy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (2003): 190–98.
Dworkin, Ronald “In Defense of Equality,” Social Philosophy and Policy 1 (1983): 24–40.
Dworkin, RonaldJustice for Hedgehogs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Dworkin, RonaldA Matter of Principle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Dworkin, RonaldSovereign Virtue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Dworkin, Ronald “Sovereign Virtue Revisited,” Ethics 113 (2002): 106–43.
Dworkin, RonaldTaking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Dworkin, Ronald “What Is Equality? Part 1: Equality of Welfare,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 10 (1981): 185–246.
Dworkin, Ronald “What Is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 10 (1981): 283–345.
Feinberg, Joel. Doing and Deserving. Princeton University Press, 1979.
Fleurbaey, Marc. “Egalitarian Opportunities,” Law and Philosophy 20 (2001): 499–530.
Fleurbaey, Marc “Equal Opportunity or Equal Social Outcome?,” Economics and Philosophy 11 (2005): 25–55.
Frankfurt, Harry. “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969): 829–39.
Frankfurt, HarryThe Importance of What We Care About. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Gans, Herbert. The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Gutmann, Amy. Democratic Education. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Harrington, Michael. The Other America. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
Heyd, David, and Miller, G. Franklin. “Life Plans: Do They Give Meaning to Our Lives?,” The Monist 93 (2010): 17–37.
Holton, Richard. Willing, Wanting, Waiting. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Hurley, Susan. Justice, Luck, and Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Kagan, Shelly. The Geometry of Desert. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Kahneman, Daniel, Slovik, Paul, and Tversky, Amos, eds. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Kauppinen, Anntui. “Meaningfulness and Time,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84 (2012): 239–65.
Keller, Simon. “Welfare as Success,” Nous 43 (2009): 656–83.
Knight, Carl. Luck Egalitarianism. University of Edinburgh Press, 2009.
Knight, Carl “The Metaphysical Case for Luck Egalitarianism,” Social Theory and Practice 32 (2006): 173–89.
Korsgaard, Christine. Creating the Kingdom of Ends. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Korsgaard, ChristineSelf-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Korsgaard, ChristineThe Sources of Normativity. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Larmore, Charles. Patterns of Moral Complexity. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Larmore, Charles “The Idea of a Life Plan,” Social Philosophy and Policy 16 (1999): 96–112.
Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper. “Egalitarianism, Option Luck, and Responsibility,” Ethics 111 (2001): 548–79.
Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper “Justice and Bad Luck,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009), online, n.p.
Lloyd Thomas, D. A. “Equality within the Limits of Reason Alone,” Mind 88 (1979): 538–53.
Markovits, Daniel. “Luck Egalitarianism and Political Solidarity,” Theoretical Inquiries into Law 9 (2008): 271–308.
McKerlie, Dennis. “Equality and Time,” Ethics 99 (1989): 475–91.
McMahan, Jeff. The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Miller, David. Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Nagel, Thomas. Equality and Partiality. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Nagel, ThomasThe View from Nowhere. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
Nussbaum, Martha. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Nussbaum, MarthaWomen and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Olsaretti, Serena, ed. Justice and Desert. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Olsaretti, Serena, Liberty, Desert, and the Market. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Otsuka, Michael. “Luck, Insurance, and Equality,” Ethics 113 (2002): 40–54.
Parfit, Derek. “Equality or Priority?,” in The Idea of Equality. Edited by Clayton, Matthew and Williams, Andrew, pp. 81–125. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Pettit, Phillip. “Freedom and Probability: A Comment on Goodin and Jackson,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 36 (2008): 206–20.
Raibly, Jason R. “Welfare over Time and the Case for Holism,” Philosophical Papers 41 (2012): 239–65.
Rakowski, Eric. Equal Justice. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Rawls, John “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory: The Dewey Lectures 1980,” Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 515–72.
Raz, Joseph. The Morality of Freedom. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Riley, Jonathan. “Justice under Capitalism,” in Markets and Justice: Nomos XXXI. Edited by Chapman, J. W. and Pennock, J. Roland, pp. 122–62. New York University Press, 1989.
Roemer, John. “A Pragmatic Theory of Responsibility for the Egalitarian Planner,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 22 (1993): 146–66.
Roemer, John “Equality and Responsibility,” The Boston Review, 20 (1995): 3–16.
Roemer, JohnEquality of Opportunity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Sadurski, Wojchek. Giving Desert Its Due: Social Justice and Legal Theory. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.
Sandbu, Martin. “On Dworkin's Brute-Luck – Option-Luck Distinction and the Consistency of Brute-Luck Egalitarianism,” Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 3 (2004): 283–312.
Scheffler, Samuel. Equality and Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Scheffler, Samuel “What Is Egalitarianism?,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (2003): 5–39.
Segall, Shlomi. “In Solidarity with the Imprudent: A Defense of Luck Egalitarianism,” Social Theory and Practice 33 (2007): 177–98.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.
Sen, Amartya “Equality of What?,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Edited by McMurrin, Sterling, pp. 195–220. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Sen, AmartyaInequality Reexamined. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Sher, George. Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Sher, GeorgeDesert. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Sher, George “Talents and Choices,” Nous 46 (2012): 375–86.
Sher, GeorgeWho Knew? Responsibility without Awareness. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. New York: Avon Books, 1975.
Singer, PeterPractical Ethics, Third Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Smilansky, Saul. “Egalitarian Justice and the Importance of the Free Will Problem,” Philosophia 25 (1997): 153–61.
Sytsma, Justin, and Machery, Edouard. “The Two Sources of Moral Standing,” Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3 (2012): 303–24.
Tan, Kok-Chor. “A Defense of Luck Egalitarianism,” Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008): 665–90.
Temkin, Larry. “Egalitarianism Defended,” Ethics 110 (2000): 339–49.
Vallentyne, Peter. “Brute Luck and Responsibility,” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 7 (2008): 57–80.
Vallentyne, Peter “Brute Luck, Option Luck, and Equality of Initial Opportunities,” Ethics 112 (2002): 529–57.
Velleman, J. David. Practical Reflection. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Velleman, J. DavidThe Possibility of Practical Reason. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Voight, Kristin. “The Harshness Objection: Is Luck Egalitarianism Too Harsh on the Victims of Option Luck?,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007): 389–407.
Waldron, Jeremy. “Basic Equality.” New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers, 107 (2009): online.
Williams, Bernard. “The Idea of Equality,” in Equality: Selected Readings. Edited by Pojman, Louis and Westmoreland, Robert, pp. 91–104. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Williams, BernardMoral Luck. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged. University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.