Richard Arneson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5733748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Arneson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Arneson |
| SIGNATURE | ARNESON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy, University of California at San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Margaret Gilbert on “Rights and Demands”
Responsibility and Distributive Justice
Distributive justice principles specify what is a fair distribution of benefits and burdens across individual persons (and other beings as well, but this complication is set aside). Some distributive justice principles require provision of assistance to those who suffer misfortune and are worse off than others or badly off in absolute terms. Does one’s eligibility for receipt of such assistance vary, to some degree, independently of instrumental …
Against Patriotism and National Partiality
Democracy Is Not Intrinsically Just
Four Conceptions of Equal Opportunity
Equality of opportunity is widely endorsed but subject to conflicting interpretations. This article identifies four non‐equivalent interpretations of the equality of opportunity ideal. Under scrutiny, all are contestable. The suggestion is broached that equality opportunity norms are best regarded as, in some circumstances, means to further justice goals, never rather as in themselves morally desirable
The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalis…
Basic Equality: Neither Acceptable nor Rejectable
This chapter considers the proposal that in virtue of possessing rational agency capacities at a threshold level, beings qualify as persons. However, this proposal faces the problem of empirical variance: on any plausible understanding of the capacities that constitute rational agency capacity, these capacities vary by degree. Thus, if I am morally more significant than a lizard or even a gorilla because I possess more rational agency capacity, w…
Rejecting the order of public reason
Against Relationalism in Global Justice Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Justice After Rawls
This article examines the changes in the conception of justice after John Rawls. It explains that Rawls single-handedly revived Anglo-American political philosophy and his theory consists in an egalitarian vision of justice. It discusses criticisms on Rawls' theory of justice and identifies some alternative paths. It suggests that while Rawls' book The Law of Peoples adopted a conservative and somewhat anti-cosmopolitan stance, the doctrine of eg…
Paternalism and the principle of fairness
This chapter has defended the Hart-Rawls principles of fairness as justifying the duty to obey the law, in a broad range of cases. It contributes towards the development of the most promising non-consequentialist moral theory. Robert Nozick's examples include some in which a non-excludable good is provided to a group of people. He imagines a neighborhood public address system, with individuals taking turns entertaining their neighbors through lou…
Discrimination, Disparate Impact, and Theories of Justice
This chapter defends an act consequentialist approach to the law and morality of non-discrimination. It emphasizes R. M. Hare's idea that moral thinking should be conceived as functioning on different ?levels?. Beyond some broad defence of the general family of act consequentialist principles, it singles out a narrower family of views ? prioritarian welfarist with welfare or individual well-being understood according to an Objective List construa…
Exploitation and outcome
Exploitation is interacting with another in a way that takes unfair advantage of that person. Exploitation is thought to be morally wrong even when it would bring about the best attainable outcome, hence conflicts with the consequentialist morality that holds one ought always to do whatever would bring about the best outcome. This essay aims to reconcile norms against exploitation and act consequentialism. A puzzle about exploitation is raised an…
Rawls, Responsibility, and Distributive Justice
The theory of justice pioneered by John Rawls explores a simple idea – that the concern of distributive justice is to compensate individuals for misfortune. Some people are blessed with good luck; some are cursed with bad luck, and it is the responsibility of society – all of us regarded collectively – to alter the distribution of goods and evils that arises from the jumble of lotteries that constitutes human life as we know it. Some are lucky to…
Economic Analysis Meets Distributive Justice
Exploitation and outcome
Exploitation is interacting with another in a way that takes unfair advantage of that person. Exploitation is thought to be morally wrong even when it would bring about the best attainable outcome, hence conflicts with the consequentialist morality that holds one ought always to do whatever would bring about the best outcome. This essay aims to reconcile norms against exploitation and act consequentialism. A puzzle about exploitation is raised an…
Four Conceptions of Equal Opportunity
Equality of opportunity is widely endorsed but subject to conflicting interpretations. This article identifies four non‐equivalent interpretations of the equality of opportunity ideal. Under scrutiny, all are contestable. The suggestion is broached that equality opportunity norms are best regarded as, in some circumstances, means to further justice goals, never rather as in themselves morally desirable
Economic Analysis Meets Distributive Justice
Rawls, Responsibility, and Distributive Justice
The theory of justice pioneered by John Rawls explores a simple idea – that the concern of distributive justice is to compensate individuals for misfortune. Some people are blessed with good luck; some are cursed with bad luck, and it is the responsibility of society – all of us regarded collectively – to alter the distribution of goods and evils that arises from the jumble of lotteries that constitutes human life as we know it. Some are lucky to…
Justice After Rawls
This article examines the changes in the conception of justice after John Rawls. It explains that Rawls single-handedly revived Anglo-American political philosophy and his theory consists in an egalitarian vision of justice. It discusses criticisms on Rawls' theory of justice and identifies some alternative paths. It suggests that while Rawls' book The Law of Peoples adopted a conservative and somewhat anti-cosmopolitan stance, the doctrine of eg…
Paternalism and the principle of fairness
This chapter has defended the Hart-Rawls principles of fairness as justifying the duty to obey the law, in a broad range of cases. It contributes towards the development of the most promising non-consequentialist moral theory. Robert Nozick's examples include some in which a non-excludable good is provided to a group of people. He imagines a neighborhood public address system, with individuals taking turns entertaining their neighbors through lou…
Discrimination, Disparate Impact, and Theories of Justice
This chapter defends an act consequentialist approach to the law and morality of non-discrimination. It emphasizes R. M. Hare's idea that moral thinking should be conceived as functioning on different ?levels?. Beyond some broad defence of the general family of act consequentialist principles, it singles out a narrower family of views ? prioritarian welfarist with welfare or individual well-being understood according to an Objective List construa…
Exploitation and outcome
Exploitation is interacting with another in a way that takes unfair advantage of that person. Exploitation is thought to be morally wrong even when it would bring about the best attainable outcome, hence conflicts with the consequentialist morality that holds one ought always to do whatever would bring about the best outcome. This essay aims to reconcile norms against exploitation and act consequentialism. A puzzle about exploitation is raised an…
Basic Equality: Neither Acceptable nor Rejectable
This chapter considers the proposal that in virtue of possessing rational agency capacities at a threshold level, beings qualify as persons. However, this proposal faces the problem of empirical variance: on any plausible understanding of the capacities that constitute rational agency capacity, these capacities vary by degree. Thus, if I am morally more significant than a lizard or even a gorilla because I possess more rational agency capacity, w…
Rejecting the order of public reason
Against Relationalism in Global Justice Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalis…
Democracy Is Not Intrinsically Just
Four Conceptions of Equal Opportunity
Equality of opportunity is widely endorsed but subject to conflicting interpretations. This article identifies four non‐equivalent interpretations of the equality of opportunity ideal. Under scrutiny, all are contestable. The suggestion is broached that equality opportunity norms are best regarded as, in some circumstances, means to further justice goals, never rather as in themselves morally desirable
Against Patriotism and National Partiality
Responsibility and Distributive Justice
Distributive justice principles specify what is a fair distribution of benefits and burdens across individual persons (and other beings as well, but this complication is set aside). Some distributive justice principles require provision of assistance to those who suffer misfortune and are worse off than others or badly off in absolute terms. Does one’s eligibility for receipt of such assistance vary, to some degree, independently of instrumental …
Margaret Gilbert on “Rights and Demands”
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