Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: On social equality, individuals ought to relate on terms of equality. An important issue concerning this theory, which has not received much attention, is its scope: which individuals ought to relate on egalitarian terms? The answer depends on the theory’s grounds: the basis on which demands of social equality arise when they do. This chapter considers how we ought to construe the scope and the grounds of social equality. It argues that underlying the considerations social egalitarians advance for taking demands of social equality to arise in the context of the state are relational facts that can obtain beyond state borders. The argument suggests an account of the grounds of social equality, and this account provides support for the scope of social equality potentially transcending the state.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Rekha Nath
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2482123710