Equality and Priority
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Utilitas
- Vol. 6 (1) , 25-42
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0953820800001308
Abstract
Moral egalitarianism will depend on one of two basic ideas. The first is the idea of equality itself. We might believe that it is a good thing if different people have equal shares of resources, or if their lives score equally well in terms of whatever makes lives valuable, at least if there is no reason based on some other moral value for one person to do better than the other. Equality is a relationship between the lives of different people. This version of egalitarianism (I will call it the ‘equality view’) claims that the existence of the relationship makes an outcome better. It attributes value to relations between lives rather than to the content of lives.Keywords
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