EBOOK Equality and Responsibility

Arguments about distributive justice often take place around two ideas. One is        that good should be distributed equally. The other is that how people fare in life        should depend on what they are responsible for. The author asks what draws us to        these two ideas and examines recent attempts by egalitarian thinkers to bring them        together in a single distributive ideal. Underlying this ideal is the egalitarian        intuition - the intuition that it is objectionable for some to be worse offthan        others through no fault of their own. in a wide-ranging discussion, Lake tests that        intuition from a variety of perspectives and points to the gaps in our current        thinking about quality and individual responsibility.