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Addressing Disadvantage and the Human Good
Author(s) -
Wolff Jonathan
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5930.t01-1-00216
Subject(s) - disadvantage , disadvantaged , compensation (psychology) , sociology , positive economics , epistemology , law and economics , social psychology , psychology , economics , political science , law , philosophy
This paper sets out a framework in which we can distinguish between four types of redistributive attention to the disadvantaged: compensation; personal enhancement; targeted resource enhancement; and status enhancement. It is argued that in certain cases many of us will have strong intuitions in favour or against one or more strategies for addressing disadvantage, and it is further argued that in such cases it is likely that our reactions are based on assumptions about the human good. Hence the two issues — addressing disadvantage and the human good — shed light on one another [1].