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DOI: 10.1093/9780198945703.001.0001Title: Leaving Nothing to ChancePublished: 2025-04-17Abstract: The most influential theory of distributive equality to have emerged since John Rawls’s justice as fairness is luck egalitarianism , which aims to neutralize the distributive effects of luck. The standard form, brute-luck egalitarianism , advanced by Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, and Ronald Dworkin, allows the unequal consequences of option luck (the results of deliberate gambles) to stand while neutralizing the unequal consequences of brute luck (the results of unchosen risk). Relational egalitarian critics of luck egalitarianism have objected to the abandonment of those with bad option luck as contrary to egalitarian goals. Luck egalitarians have responded by moderating their view or even accepting the core of relational egalitarianism, which is now in the ascendency. Leaving Nothing to Chance reverses this retreat, presenting a bold new theory of equality that overcomes criticism of luck egalitarianism by reinterpreting and strengthening its core commitment to equalizing luck. It offers the first major statement of all-luck egalitarianism, which unlike brute-luck egalitarianism neut

Author

Carl Knight

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198945703