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Equality and Justice: Remarks on a Necessary Relationship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Birgit Christensen  and
Andrew F. Smith
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Abstract

The processes associated with globalization have reinforced and even increased prevailing conditions of inequality among human beings with respect to their political, economic, cultural, and social opportunities. Yet—or perhaps precisely because of this trend—there has been, within political philosophy, an observable tendency to question whether equality in fact should be treated a as central value within a theory of justice. In response, I examine a number of nonegalitarian positions to try to show that the concept of equality cannot be dispensed with in any adequate consideration of justice.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Contemporary Feminist Philosophy in German , Spring 2005 , pp. 155 - 163
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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