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| Egalitarianism: Egalitarianism is a philosophical and political theory that holds that all people are equal in fundamental worth or moral status and that therefore they should be treated with equal respect and have equal rights and opportunities._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Gerald F. Gaus on Egalitarianism - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 128 Egalitarianism/Gaus/Mack: If equal ownership of resources cannot be established as a default, the egalitarian interpretation of Locke must provide a positive argument as to why we all possess equal claims to external resources. If natural resources are owned in common, how did that come about? Far more plausible is the view that natural resources are not originally owned at all - that we all equally lack original rights over natural resources - but that any act of acquisition must avoid harming others, which leads to something like the liberty tradition's understanding of the Lockean proviso. >Property/Locke, cf. >Property/Hillel Steiner, >Income/Steiner, >Jobs Van Parijs, >Freedom/Hillel Steiner. Rights/harm: Now a third 'leftward' (statist) push comes from attempts to widen the concept of harm, such that almost any economic activity constitutes a harm to others. >Rights/Pogge. Mack, Eric and Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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