Against Equal Respect and Concern, Equal Rights, and Egalitarian Impartiality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23170641 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Uwe Steinhoff (0000-0001-5805-6945) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 142-172 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719502.003.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2502885430 |
| ISBN | 9780198719502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This chapter argues that the often-heard claim that all serious present-day political philosophers are in some fundamental sense egalitarians is wrong. It also rejects the claim that the methods currently used in political philosophy presuppose basic equality. It further argues that there is no universal duty “of equal respect and concern,” no duty of the state to respect all citizens equally, and no equality of rights or worth; and that appeals to “recognition respect” and related concepts are to no avail for grounding basic equality. Attempts to go back a step and to claim that certain rights inequalities or discriminatory rules are themselves “grounded” in equal respect and concern at some deeper, norm-generating level are, it argues, also futile. Finally, it contends that the “This is not what we mean” strategy of escaping anti-egalitarian arguments reduces egalitarianism to triviality and empty rhetoric; it thus concludes that liberal egalitarianism should be abandoned.
Contractualism · Duty · Egalitarianism · Impartiality · Inequality · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |