Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
The paper returns to the question whether equality in distribution is valuable in itself, or, if you like, whether it is intrinsically valuable. Its bulk is an examination of two familiar arguments against the intrinsic value of distributional equality: the levelling down objection and the objection that equality violates some person-affecting condition, in that its realisation does not improve the lot of people.
Disciplines
Law | Law and Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Joseph Raz,
On the Value of Distributional Equality,
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 41/2008
(2008).
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