1st Edition

Luck Egalitarianism Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and His Critics

Edited By David V. Axelsen, Juliana Bidadanure, Tim Meijers Copyright 2020
152 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of luck egalitarianism – one of the most prominent views in contemporary political philosophy – through an exploration of the theory of one of its leading proponents, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. When (if ever) can inequalities in how well peoples’ lives go be justified? Luck egalitarianism provides an appealing answer: inequalities are just if, and... Read more

1. Introduction: Equality, responsibility, and justice

David V. Axelsen, Juliana Bidadanure and Tim Meijers

2. Precís of luck egalitarianism

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

3. Justice as fairness and bad luck

Robert van der Veen

4. How generous should egalitarians be?

Zofia Stemplowska

5. Are inequalities between us and the dead intergenerationally unjust?

Axel Gosseries

6. On Who matters: extending the scope of luck egalitarianism to groups

Sara Amighetti and Siba Harb

7. Equality, value pluralism and relevance: Is luck egalitarianism in one way good,

but not all things considered?

Tim Meijers and Pierre-Etienne Vandamme

8. Unequally egalitarian? Defending the credentials of social egalitarianism

David V. Axelsen and Juliana Bidadanure

9. Reply to critics

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Biography

David V. Axelsen is LSE Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, UK.



Juliana Bidadanure is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Political Science at Stanford University, USA.



Tim Meijers is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.