The Ideal of Equality

RICHARD ARNESON Professor of Philosophy, University of California G.A. COHEN Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford RONALD DWORKIN Professor of Law, New York University and Quain Professor in Jurisprudence, University College London THOMAS NAGEL Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University DEREK PARFIT Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford JOHN RAWLS Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University T.M. SCANLON Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University LARRY TEMKIN Professor of Philosophy, Rice University

One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to egalitarian convictions and withstands the most powerful anti-egalitarian objections.One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to egalitarian convictions and withstands the most powerful anti-egalitarian objections. This book brings together many of the key contributions to that debate by some of the world's leading political philosophers: Richard Arneson, G.A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, John Rawls, T.M. Scanlon, and Larry Temkin.