ISBN:
9780190084264
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Political Philosophy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
320.011
Keywords:
Social justice
;
Equality
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Social status
;
Social justice
;
Discrimination Moral and ethical aspects
;
Liberalism
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book delivers the first comprehensive development of a liberal conception of relational equality as a demand of social justice. Liberal egalitarian theories holding that justice requires a form of distributive equality in goods such as resources have been dominant for much of the last 50 years. Recently they have been subject to critique by relational egalitarians, who hold that the value of equality does not primarily require that people receive equal shares of some good, but that they relate as social equals, unencumbered by hierarchies of power and social status.
Abstract:
Cover -- Series -- Justice and Egalitarian Relations -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Justice and Egalitarian Relations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Liberal Social Justice and Relational Egalitarianism: The Project -- 1.3. Plan of the Argument -- 1.4. Relational Equality When and Where? -- 2. Distributive and Relational Equality -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Distributive Egalitarianism: Currency Theories of Equality -- 2.3. Five Ways of Treating People -- 2.4. A Preliminary Objection: Justice Is Not All That Matters -- 2.5. Differing Institutional Causal Involvement -- 2.6. Differing Institutional Attitudes Expressed in Treatment -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 3. Liberal Non-Domination -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Equality of Power and Social Cooperation -- 3.3. The Injustice of Domination -- 3.4. Republican Conceptions of Justice as Non-Domination -- 4. The Demands of Liberal Non-Domination -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Domination, Narrow and Wide -- 4.3. The Intensity of Non-Domination -- 4.4. Why Not Just Maximize (Equal) Non-Domination? -- 4.5. Realizing Liberal Non-Domination -- 4.6. Conclusion: Distributing Non-Domination? -- 5. Relational Equality beyond Non-Domination -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination -- 5.3. Pluralist Social Egalitarianism -- 5.4. Relation-Sensitive Metrics -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 6. Social Status, Self-Respect, and Opportunity -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Social Status Norms -- 6.3. The Diverse Effects of Status Norms -- 6.4. The Injustice of Status-Induced Opportunity Loss -- 6.5. Conclusion: Treating Others as Inferior, With and Without Norms -- 7. Political Equality -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Two False Starts -- 7.3. The Grounds and Shape of Political Equality -- 7.4. Restricting Political Equality -- 7.5. Conclusion: Dworkin and Democracy.
Abstract:
"Why does equality matter, as a social and political value, and what does it require? Relational egalitarians argue that it does not primarily require that people receive equal distributive shares of some good, but that they relate as equals. This book develops a liberal conception of relational equality, which understands relations of non-domination and egalitarians norms of social status as stringent demands of social justice. First, it argues that expressing respect for the freedom and equality of individuals in social cooperation requires stringent protections against domination; develops a substantive, liberal conception of non-domination; and argues that non-domination is a particularly important, but not the only, concern of social justice. These features set it apart from, and provide it with crucial advantages over, neo-republican accounts of non-domination. Second, the book develops an account of the wrongness of inegalitarian norms of social status, which shows how status-induced foreclosure of important social opportunities is a social injustice in its own right, over and above the role of status inequality in enabling domination, and the threats it poses to individuals' self-respect. Finally, it works out the implications of liberal relational egalitarianism for political, economic, and health justice, showing that it demands, in practice, far-reaching forms of equality in all three domains. In so doing, the book draws on, and brings together, several different literatures: on social justice and liberalism, distributive and relational equality, the distinct value of social equality, and neo-republicanism and non-domination"--
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