On the Scope and Grounds of Social Equality

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ID23150265
AuthorsR Nath (0000-0003-3316-1495, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages186-208
Publication date2015-01-06
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSocial Equality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199331109.003.0010
OpenAlexW2482123710
ISBN9780199331109
LanguageEN
Citations received10

On social equality, individuals ought to relate on terms of equality. An important issue concerning this theory, which has not received much attention, is its scope: which individuals ought to relate on egalitarian terms? The answer depends on the theory’s grounds: the basis upon which demands of social equality arise when they do. In this chapter, I consider how we ought to construe the scope and the grounds of social equality. I argue that underlying the considerations social egalitarians advance for taking demands of social equality to arise in the context of the state are relational facts that can obtain beyond state borders. So, my argument suggests an account of the grounds of social equality, and this account provides support for the scope of social equality potentially transcending the state.

Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Law and economics · Political science · Positive economics · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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