December 07, 2003

Basic Structure and the Value of Equality

Posted by Harry

The new issue of Philosophy and Public Affairs contains a brilliant paper by A.J. Julius on the issue of the site of distributive justice. (Subscribers only I’m afraid). He argues against Cohen’s wide-scope construal of the basic structure, and in favour of a more limited scope construal, but does so in what seems to me a novel way — and also indicates that this construal is consistent with far less inequality than either defenders or opponents of the narrow-scope construal often suppose. Read it.

Posted on December 7, 2003 03:29 PM UTC
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You’re killing me! For those of us without access to a good research library, can you at least summarize? In so doing you’re favoring the cause of equality — a broad scope claim mandates that you provide a precis.

Posted by baa · December 7, 2003 10:47 PM
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