Can I read Relational Egalitarianism : Living As Equals on EtoBox?

Relational Egalitarianism : Living As Equals by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Relational Egalitarianism : Living As Equals about?

Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational paradigm. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen seeks to describe, refine, and assess these thoughts and to propose a comprehensive form of egalitarianism which includes central elements from both relational and distributive paradigms. He shows why many of the challenges that luck egalitarianism faces reappear, once we try to specify relational egalitarianism more fully. His discussion advances understanding of the nature of the relational ideal, and introduces new conceptual tools for understanding it and for exploring the important question of why it is desirable in the first place to relate as equals. Even severe critics of the distributive understanding of justice will find that this book casts important new light on the ideal to which they subscribe. ** Book Description Many contemporary political philosophers reject the so-called distributive paradigm of justice, and believe that it should be replaced with the view that, fundamentally, justic

Author

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107158900

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, Humanities