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ToolsBrown, Alexander (2007) An egalitarian plateau? Challenging the importance of Ronald Dworkin’s Abstract Egalitarian Rights. Res Publica, 13. pp. 255-291.
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Ronald Dworkin’s work on the topic of equality over the past twenty-five years or so has been enormously influential, generating a great deal of debate about equality both as a practical aim and as a theoretical ideal. The present article attempts to assess the importance of one particular aspect of this work. Dworkin claims that the acceptance of abstract egalitarian rights to equal concern and respect can be thought to provide a kind of plateau in political argument, accommodating as it does a number of well-known ethical theories of social arrangement from utilitarianism to libertarianism. The article explores the moral foundations of these egalitarian rights and critically examines five specific reasons for supposing they matter in political debate. It is argued that though these reasons are perhaps less constructive than they might be reasonably expected to be, there is another more fundamental question we can ask about the scope of egalitarian rights the answer to which might ultimately help to explain their fundamental nature and importance. That question is: equality among whom?
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:57 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9850 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11158-007-9030-2 |
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