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Training, Perfectionism and Fairness
Author(s) -
Wolff Jonathan
Publication year - 2004
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/j.0264-3758.2004.00282.x
Subject(s) - duty , retraining , perfectionism (psychology) , unemployment , psychology , social psychology , sociology , law , economics , political science , economic growth
This paper considers the question of whether unemployed individuals have a duty of fairness to accept retraining as a condition of receiving unemployment benefit. It is argued, in response to Stuart White, that, although there are some circumstances where individuals do have such a moral duty, for an egalitarian it is never the case that there is sufficient reason for enforcing such a duty by means of the law.