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JUSTICE IS NOT EQUALITY
Author(s) -
Arneson Richard J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00409.x
Subject(s) - arbitrariness , argument (complex analysis) , economic justice , ideal (ethics) , epistemology , reflective equilibrium , distributive justice , sociology , philosophy , law and economics , law , political science , chemistry , biochemistry
This essay disputes G. A. Cohen's claim that John Rawls's argument for the difference principle involves an argument from moral arbitrariness to equality and then an illicit move away from equality. Moreover, the claim that an argument from moral arbitrariness establishes equality as the essential distributive justice ideal is found wanting.