Hurley on egalitarianism and the luck-neutralizing aim

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
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Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: University of Copenhagen, Denmark, lippert@hum.ku.dk

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2005, vol. 4, issue 2, 249-265

Abstract: 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 should aim for equality, Hurley has not demonstrated (nor indeed does she claim to have shown) that this concern cannot form the justificatory basis of egalitarianism in a non-question-begging way. This, however, does not detract from the fact that Hurley’s book provides a very insightful discussion of the relationship between luck and justice.

Keywords: Hurley; Dworkin; Cohen; luck; justice; egalitarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X05052543

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