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Informationen zum Autor MATTHEW CLAYTON is Lecturer in Government at Brunel University. ANDREW WILLIAMS is Research Fellow in Public Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Klappentext One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to egalitarian convictions and withstands the most powerful anti-egalitarian objections. This book brings together many of the key contributions to that debate by some of the world's leading political philosophers: Richard Arneson, G.A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, John Rawls, T.M. Scanlon, and Larry Temkin. Zusammenfassung One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to egalitarian convictions and withstands the most powerful anti-egalitarian objections. This book brings together many of the key contributions to that debate by some of the world's leading political philosophers: Richard Arneson, G.A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, John Rawls, T.M. Scanlon, and Larry Temkin. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Some Questions for Egalitarians; M.Clayton & A.Williams Reply to Alexander and Musgrave (extracts); J.Rawls The Diversity of Objections to Inequality; T.M.Scanlon Equality; T.Nagel Equality or Priority?; D.Parfit Equality, Priority, and the Levelling Down Objection; L.Temkin The Pareto Argument for Inequality (extracts); G.A.Cohen Equal Opportunities for Welfare (extracts); R.Arneson Justice in the Distribution of Health Care; R.Dworkin Further Reading Index
