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Equality and Priority
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Peterson, Martin Hansson, Sven Ove |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | This article argues that, contrary to the received view, prioritarianism and egalitarianism are not jointly incompatible theories in normative ethics. By introducing a distinction between weighing and aggregating, the authors show that the seemingly conflicting intuitions underlying prioritarianism and egalitarianism are consistent. The upshot is a combined position, equality-prioritarianism, which takes both prioritarian and egalitarian considerations into account in a technically precise manner. On this view, the moral value of a distribution of well-being is a product of two factors: the sum of all individuals' priority-adjusted well-being, and a measure of the equality of the distribution in question. Some implications of equality-prioritarianism are considered. |
| Related Links | https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3193750/Metis234192.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A92CED505F10E4DA4E5ABF9ADD960D86/S0953820805001664a.pdf/div-class-title-equality-span-class-italic-and-span-priority-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 309 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Starting Page | 299 |
| ISSN | 09538208 |
| e-ISSN | 17416183 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820805001664 |
| Journal | Utilitas |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2005-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Utilitas Applied Ethics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Philosophy |
