Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4391803 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen |
| NOMBRES | Kasper |
| APELLIDO | Lippert-Rasmussen |
| FIRMA | LIPPERT-RASMUSSEN K |
| AFILIACIONES | Professor of Political Theory, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Expressionist relational egalitarianism
Schemmel’s Justice and Egalitarian Relations offers an ambitious account of an expressionist version of relational egalitarianism. His core argument for this account appeals to a series of cases that co-vary in terms of what they express and in terms of the degree to which they are unjust. I offer four criticisms of this argument, concluding that it fails to justify Schemmel’s favoured theory of justice.
Kolodny on discrimination
According to Niko Kolodny, the commonplace claim that individuals ‘have claims to non-discriminatory social institutions and forms of treatment’ can be fully explained by neither appeals to claims against invasion, nor by an interest in improvement. To adequately explain the claim to non-discrimination we must appeal to the claim against inferiority. However, while the claim against inferiority explains important aspects of this commonplace, othe…
Is discrimination wrong because it is undeserved
Several leading theorists embrace the Simple Desert Account of Discrimination. This account involves two claims: it claims that a mismatch between what people deserve, on the one hand, and what they get, on the other hand, is (a) integral to discrimination, and (b) wrong. I shall query (a). First, I challenge what I see as the principal, positive argument for the Simple Desert Account. Second, in some cases wrongful discrimination brings about a …
Justice and Egalitarian Relations
The Beam and the Mote
Most believe (or at least respond, if subjected to hypocritical blame, as if they believe) that even if one has done something blameworthy, one can dismiss blame on that account when it comes from a hypocritical blamer. This book examines the nature and ethics of standingless hypocritical blame. It argues that hypocrites lack standing to blame by virtue of their lack of commitment to the norms to which they appeal in their blame; that hypocritica…
Why the All-Affected Principle Is Groundless
The all-affected principle is a widely accepted solution to the problem of constituting the demos. Despite its popularity, a basic question in relation to the principle has not received much attention: why does the fact that an individual is affected by a certain decision ground a right to inclusion in democratic decision-making about that matter? An answer to this question must include a reason that explains why an affected individual should be …
Facts and Norms
Tensions in Piketty’s Participatory Socialism
In the final parts of Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, he presents his vision for a just and more equal society. This vision marks an alternative to contemporary societies, and differs radically both from the planned Soviet economies and from social democratic welfare states. In his sketch of this vision, Piketty provides a principled account of how such a society would look and how it would modify the current status of private property through co…
Rawls and Luck Egalitarianism
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls famously noted that many (dis)advantages reflect the outcomes of the social and the natural lottery. In these remarks, inter alia, some have seen the early appearance in Rawls’s work of what was later developed into a full-blown luck egalitarian theory of justice. Luck egalitarianism says that it is unjust if some are worse off than others through no choice or fault of their own. This principle differs from Rawls’s t…
Making Sense of Affirmative Action
What makes affirmative action morally (un)justified? That is this book’s core question. Its main contribution consists in a meticulous scrutiny of the strength of the six main arguments for—i.e., the compensation, the anti-discrimination, the equality of opportunity, the role model, the diversity, and the integration-based justifications—and the five main objections to affirmative action—i.e., the reverse discrimination, the stigma, the mismatch,…
Refugee Crisis
‘(Luck and Relational) Egalitarians of the World, Unite!’
In recent years, egalitarian political philosophy has been marred by a family dispute between luck and relational egalitarianism. This chapter presents a certain view about what constitutes the core difference and disagreement between the two views. This enables us to set aside a number of issues, e.g., the role of responsibility, which are better discussed as intraluck or intrasocial relational egalitarian issues. Second, a defense is made of a …
Relational Egalitarianism
"Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational paradigm. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen seeks to describe, refine, and assess these thoughts and to propose a comprehensive form of egalitarianism which includes central elements from both relational and…
Reply to critics
This article provides a response to the contributors of this symposium. Notably, I respond to challenges pertaining to whether my account can: accommodate collective goods and collective choice and the complexities pertaining to intergenerational justice; be reconciled with the insights of relational egalitarianism and non-ideal theory; meet the requirement that it provides political action guidance instead of being practically irrelevant; be gro…
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination
Epistemic discrimination is prejudice, bias and discriminatory action suffered by individuals in their position as epistemic agents, that is, as individuals who can acquire knowledge, justified belief or understanding. Epistemic discrimination can be intentional or unintentional. To get a general handle on the phenomenon of epistemic discrimination, this chapter considers a subset of cases of epistemic discrimination that have been discussed in t…
A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy…
Luck egalitarians versus relational egalitarians
Pluralist egalitarians think that luck and relational egalitarianism each articulates a component in a pluralist account of egalitarian justice. However, this ecumenical view appears problematic in the light of Elizabeth Anderson’s claim that the divide arises because two incompatible views of justification are in play, which in turn generates derivative disagreements – e.g. about the proper currency of egalitarian justice. In support of pluralis…
Born Free and Equal?
xii, 317 pages ; 25 cm
The Posthuman Condition
Democratic Egalitarianism versus Luck Egalitarianism
This paper takes a fresh look at Elizabeth Anderson's democratic egalitarianism and its relation to luck egalitarianism in the light of recent trends toward greater socioeconomic inequality. Anderson's critique of luck egalitarianism and her alternative ideal of democratic equality are set out. It is then argued that the former is not very powerful, and that the latter is vulnerable to many of Anderson's criticisms of luck egalitarianism. The pap…
Estlund on Epistocracy
The posthuman condition
“We are all Different”
Luck-Egalitarianism
A standard formulation of luck-egalitarianism says that ‘it is [in itself] bad – unjust and unfair – for some to be worse off than others [through no fault or choice of their own]’, where ‘fault or choice’ means substantive responsibility-generating fault or choice. This formulation is ambiguous: one ambiguity concerns the possible existence of a gap between what is true of each worse-off individual and what is true of the group of worse-off indi…
Scanlon on the Doctrine of Double Effect
Many philosophers see doctrine of double effect (henceforth DDE) as a crucial component of nonconsequentialist moral theories, for good or bad.1 Unsurprisingly, it is notoriously controversial. Even its formula tion is subject to considerable variation across philosophers. On one in fluential account, standard version of DDE says that the pursuit of a good tends to be less acceptable where a resulting harm is intended as a means than where it is …
Estlund on Epistocracy
Hurley on egalitarianism and the luck-neutralizing aim
Susan Hurley’s admirable new book, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, brings together recent developments in the fields of responsibility and egalitarian justice. This article focuses on Hurley’s critique of luck-neutralizing egalitarianism. The article concludes that the bad-luck-neutralizing aim serves better as a justificatory basis for egalitarianism than the more general luck-neutralizing aim. Since the former does not simply assume that we shoul…
The Beam and the Mote
Most believe (or at least respond, if subjected to hypocritical blame, as if they believe) that even if one has done something blameworthy, one can dismiss blame on that account when it comes from a hypocritical blamer. This book examines the nature and ethics of standingless hypocritical blame. It argues that hypocrites lack standing to blame by virtue of their lack of commitment to the norms to which they appeal in their blame; that hypocritica…
Are Some Inequalities more Unequal than Others? Nature, Nurture and Equality
Many egalitarians believe that social inequalities are worse than natural ones. Others deny that one can coherently distinguish between them. I argue that although one can separate the influence of these factors by an analysis of variance, the distinction is morally irrelevant. It might be alleged that my argument in favour of moral irrelevance attacks a straw man. While I think this allegation is incorrect, I accommodate it by distinguishing bet…
Kamm on Inviolability and Agent-Relative Restrictions
Are Some Inequalities more Unequal than Others? Nature, Nurture and Equality
Many egalitarians believe that social inequalities are worse than natural ones. Others deny that one can coherently distinguish between them. I argue that although one can separate the influence of these factors by an analysis of variance, the distinction is morally irrelevant. It might be alleged that my argument in favour of moral irrelevance attacks a straw man. While I think this allegation is incorrect, I accommodate it by distinguishing bet…
Hurley on egalitarianism and the luck-neutralizing aim
Susan Hurley’s admirable new book, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, brings together recent developments in the fields of responsibility and egalitarian justice. This article focuses on Hurley’s critique of luck-neutralizing egalitarianism. The article concludes that the bad-luck-neutralizing aim serves better as a justificatory basis for egalitarianism than the more general luck-neutralizing aim. Since the former does not simply assume that we shoul…
Egalitarianism New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality
Egalitarianism, the view that equality matters, attracts a great deal of attention amongst contemporary political theorists. And yet it has turned out to be surprisingly difficult to provide a fully satisfactory egalitarian theory. The cutting-edge articles in Egalitarianism move the debate forward. They are written by some of the leading political philosophers in the field. Recent issues in the debate over equality are given careful consideratio…
The badness of discrimination
Language in Context
xi, 339 pages : 24 cm
Publicity and Egalitarian Justice
Recently, the issue of publicity has surfaced in discussions of the correct interpretation of the Rawlsian principles of justice. In an intriguing critique of G.A. Cohen's preferred interpretation of the difference principle as a principle that is incompatible with incentive-based inequalities, Andrew Williams points to a gap in Cohen's argument, alleging that Cohen's interpretation of the difference principle is unlikely to be compatible with th…
Understanding Particularism
Adherents of particularism draw rather strong implications of this view. However, particularism has never been stated in a canonical way. We locate the core of particularism as a claim about how different reasons combine to generate the Tightness or wrongness of an action. Using the notion of an ordering of alternatives containing separable factors, we show that particularism can be stated more generally as the denial that there exist separable f…
The Luck-Egalitarian Argument for Group Rights
Many believe that allocating individual rights and political powers differentially on the basis of ethnicity is incompatible with the fundamental values of liberal thought. However, Will Kymlicka has presented an influential luck-egalitarian argument in favour of such ‘group rights’. I set out this argument, and then critically discuss three of its premises. I argue that
Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a World of Immigration
This anthology contributes to the still emerging theoretical debates in political theory and philosophy about multiculturalism, nationalism and immigration. It focuses on multiculturalism and national
Responsible nations
In National Responsibility and Global Justice, David Miller defends the view that a member of a nation can be collectively responsible for an outcome despite the fact that: (i) she did not control it; (ii) she actively opposed those of her nation's policies that produced the outcome; and (iii) actively opposing the relevant policy was costly for her. I argue that Miller's arguments in favor of this strong externalist view about responsibility and…
Reaction Qualifications Revisited
When, in a competitive sphere, people are selected on the basis of qualifications only, their chances of acquiring positions of advantage may seem to depend entirely upon their abilities, not discriminatory bias. However, if reaction qualifications - i.e. characteristics which contribute to a person's effectiveness by causing a favourable reaction in customers, co-workers etc. (for short: recipients) - are involved, this assumption is false. Buil…
Kamm on Inviolability and Agent-Relative Restrictions
Scanlon on the Doctrine of Double Effect
Many philosophers see doctrine of double effect (henceforth DDE) as a crucial component of nonconsequentialist moral theories, for good or bad.1 Unsurprisingly, it is notoriously controversial. Even its formula tion is subject to considerable variation across philosophers. On one in fluential account, standard version of DDE says that the pursuit of a good tends to be less acceptable where a resulting harm is intended as a means than where it is …
“We are all Different”
Luck-Egalitarianism
A standard formulation of luck-egalitarianism says that ‘it is [in itself] bad – unjust and unfair – for some to be worse off than others [through no fault or choice of their own]’, where ‘fault or choice’ means substantive responsibility-generating fault or choice. This formulation is ambiguous: one ambiguity concerns the possible existence of a gap between what is true of each worse-off individual and what is true of the group of worse-off indi…
The Posthuman Condition
Democratic Egalitarianism versus Luck Egalitarianism
This paper takes a fresh look at Elizabeth Anderson's democratic egalitarianism and its relation to luck egalitarianism in the light of recent trends toward greater socioeconomic inequality. Anderson's critique of luck egalitarianism and her alternative ideal of democratic equality are set out. It is then argued that the former is not very powerful, and that the latter is vulnerable to many of Anderson's criticisms of luck egalitarianism. The pap…
Estlund on Epistocracy
The posthuman condition
Born Free and Equal?
xii, 317 pages ; 25 cm
Luck egalitarians versus relational egalitarians
Pluralist egalitarians think that luck and relational egalitarianism each articulates a component in a pluralist account of egalitarian justice. However, this ecumenical view appears problematic in the light of Elizabeth Anderson’s claim that the divide arises because two incompatible views of justification are in play, which in turn generates derivative disagreements – e.g. about the proper currency of egalitarian justice. In support of pluralis…
A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy…
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination
Epistemic discrimination is prejudice, bias and discriminatory action suffered by individuals in their position as epistemic agents, that is, as individuals who can acquire knowledge, justified belief or understanding. Epistemic discrimination can be intentional or unintentional. To get a general handle on the phenomenon of epistemic discrimination, this chapter considers a subset of cases of epistemic discrimination that have been discussed in t…
Refugee Crisis
‘(Luck and Relational) Egalitarians of the World, Unite!’
In recent years, egalitarian political philosophy has been marred by a family dispute between luck and relational egalitarianism. This chapter presents a certain view about what constitutes the core difference and disagreement between the two views. This enables us to set aside a number of issues, e.g., the role of responsibility, which are better discussed as intraluck or intrasocial relational egalitarian issues. Second, a defense is made of a …
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