...Timothy Hinton Michael Otsuka, Libertarianism without Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 158. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 1 (January 2005) Michael...

...William J. FitzPatrick These questions for further inquiry do not, however, affect the main theses of the book, which are both theoretically interesting and practically important for combatting social inequities. If O’Connor is right, the challenges are even more complicated than one might have...

... amply repay close reading. Tan develops his view with reference to three questions: where does distributive justice matter? Why should we care about economic inequality? And among whom does justice hold? The first question is taken up in the first third of Tan's book; his answer...

..., who has boundless enthusiasm for participation in public life, wields more influence than Sandy, who prefers to hone his psychic talents? Surely, in other words, there is nothing wrong in actual inequalities of influence if the source of those inequalities is in the abstention or relative lack...

.... According to Kaufman, Kant’s insistence that we have an obli- gation to secure a rightful or just civil condition lies at the core of his politics. Though he was willing to concede a considerable degree of economic inequal- ity, Kant recognized the pernicious aspects of such inequality and sought...

.... In the present work, his main objective is to counter pov- 586 BOOK REVIEWS erty rather than global inequality as such. Indeed, the morally austere starting point of Pogge’s institutional approach lacks the resources for treating global...

... structures can deprive the marginalized from having the ability to understand their own experience, articulate and express it, or be taken seriously when they do (124–26). 1 Laden's analysis also suggests a compelling diagnosis of what is bad about inequality when it does happen: “When our idle...

... of his politics. Though he was willing to concede a considerable degree of economic inequal- ity, Kant recognized the pernicious aspects of such inequality and sought to limit its operation and extent. For example, his distinction between active and passive citizens is based on a recognition...

... inequality, thus to engage in ideal theory is to turn away from the moral mandate of improving the life-chances of those least well-off along the relevant dimensions. The encounter with Rawls is a long-standing feature of Mills's work and I will not say more about it here. However, his tussle with Shelby...

... to derive the first principle of justice requiring equal basic liberties, but not to derive the second principle permitting inequal- ities in wealth insofar as they maximally benefit the minimally advantaged. Such a strategy is surprising. One would think that the maximin rule (picking that option...

.... This is important to understand in evaluating Anderson's propositions on the morality of private government. Relations of social inequality in the workplace, Anderson argues, wrongfully set back some important interests of employees. Specifically, inequality harms their interests in autonomy, standing...

... of distributive justice should be “ambition-sensitive” but not “endowment-sensitive.” That is, it will allow inequalities that reflect the fact that some people “choose to invest rather than consume, or to consume less expensively rather than more, or to work in more rather than less profitable ways...

... equality of welfare, and in particular, he maintains that a prop- er egalitarian theory of distributive justice should be “ambition-sensitive” but not “endowment-sensitive.” That is, it will allow inequalities that reflect the fact that some people “choose to invest rather than consume...

... in the context of rational credences instead of chance). This sort of principle focuses on inequalities instead of equalities. My principles differ from Dorst’s, but I’ll retain the terminology: 20 Simple Trust. Let c be a rational credence function held by an agent with total evidence E , and let X...

.... For Dworkin, see “What Is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 10 (1981): 283–345. Discussions of Sen are drawn mainly from Commodities and Capabilities (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1985); Inequality Reexamined (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992); On Economic...

..., and political protections against inequality. These include publicly funded health and education, progressive taxation of real estate and capital gains, demogrants, and coupon ownership of the major means of production. Thomas's favored form of so-called predistribution is the coupon socialism of John Roemer...

... States, racial inequality and reparations, black women's sexuality and hip-hop, and the morality of racial identity. One might distinguish the works generally as falling along one of two axes, one comprising abstract, theoretical analyses of race, such as the metaphysics of race and theories...

... tool to forestall and neu- tralize morally problematic inequalities between people and that moral agents must possess the power to engage in morally respectful relations with others. I emphasize the power to promise because, as I...

... inequality plays an important 17. Dent, Rousseau: An Introduction, 29, 71–79; Dent, A Rousseau Dictionary, 34–35; Dent, Rousseau, 87–88. See also Christopher Bertram, Rousseau and the “Social Contract” (London: Routledge, 2004), 27–28; and Timothy O’Hagan, Rousseau (London: Routledge, 1999), 167...

... and value. Biodiversity is widely held to be multidimensional, depending not only on the number of species present in the ecosystem, but also their phylogenetic and morphological diversity ( Maclaurin and Sterelny   2008 ). Inequality is multidimensional, depending on inequality of income, inequality...