Research Catalog

Title

Why inequality matters : luck egalitarianism, its meaning and value / Shlomi Segall.

Author

Segall, Shlomi, 1970-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description

x, 256 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on its instrumental value and its favourable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty over whether it has a non-instrumental or intrinsic value that can be demonstrated. In this project, Shlomi Segall explores and defends the view that it does. He argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution; instead he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves. Assessing the strength of competing accounts, such as sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, he brings together for the first time discussions of the moral value of equality with luck- or responsibility-sensitive accounts of distributive justice. His book will interest readers in political and moral philosophy"--
• "Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on its instrumental value and its favourable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty over whether it has a non-instrumental or intrinsic value that can be demonstrated. In this project Shlomi Segall explores and defends the view that it does. He argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution; instead he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves"--

Subject

• Equality
• Distributive justice
• PHILOSOPHY / Political

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Egalitarianism: 1. The variety of objections to equality; 2. Why inequality matters; 3. When does inequality matter?; 4. Who is inequality bad for?; Part II. Alternatives to Egalitarianism: 5. What is the point of sufficiency?; 6. Prioritarianism and the person-affecting view; 7. Prioritarianism and time; Part III. Chances and Choices: 8. Should egalitarians care about chances?; 9. The badness of voluntary inequalities.

Call Number

JFE 16-8456

ISBN

• 9781107129818
• 1107129818
• 9781107570313
• 110757031X

LCCN

2016015465

OCLC

946579969

Author

Segall, Shlomi, 1970- author.

Title

Why inequality matters : luck egalitarianism, its meaning and value / Shlomi Segall.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-8456