The Ideal of Equality [Paperback]

One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to egalitarian convictions and withstands the most powerful anti-egalitarian objections. This book brings together many of the key contributions to that debate by some of the world's leading political philosophers: Richard Arneson, G.A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, John Rawls, T.M. Scanlon, and Larry Temkin.List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Some Questions for Egalitarians; M.Clayton & A.Williams Reply to Alexander and Musgrave (extracts); J.Rawls The Diversity of Objections to Inequality; T.M.Scanlon Equality; T.Nagel Equality or Priority?; D.Parfit Equality, Priority, and the Levelling Down Objection; L.Temkin The Pareto Argument for Inequality (extracts); G.A.Cohen Equal Opportunities for Welfare (extracts); R.Arneson Justice in the Distribution of Health Care; R.Dworkin Further Reading IndexMATTHEW CLAYTON is Lecturer in Government at Brunel University.

ANDREW WILLIAMS is Research Fellow in Public Philosophy at the University of Warwick.