PHI 4311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sufficient Statistic, Egalitarianism, Distributive Justice
6 Nov 2014
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Crisp : argues for a sufficiency principle based on compassion, highlights counterintuitive outcomes based on principles of egalitarianism and the priority principle, presentation proceeds chronologically in line with his paper. 90: numbers in diagrams are overall welfare, without the notion of desert. In equality the groups have equal welfare, while in inequality group 1 is worse off than group 2: position that favours equality can be described as ascribing to the view of. Egalitarianism: one outcome is to be preferred to another insofar as (undeserved) inequality is minimized: egalitarianism is susceptible to the levelling down objection, unless combined with other principles or taking into account other values. 100: egalitarianism is committed to preferring ld equality to inequality2. 2014-10-28: what makes us view this as wrong, larry temkin the answer to this question can be found in the slogan. It can find nothing wrong in not conserving natural resources, as no particular person was harmed.
