Talk:Luck egalitarianism

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Contents 1 Rewrite 2 Rawls' luck? 3 Anderson's Critique 4 Explanation of reversion 5 Left or right?

[edit] Rewrite

Rewrote "political philosophers" so that the plural "S" was outside of the brackets and thus the link now actually points to political philosophy instead of being a dead red link - Livingston 22:15 28 April, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rawls' luck?

Can anyone explain, or provide a cite for, the statement "... but Rawls himself was not a luck egalitarian."? His approach is based on luck and I have seen articles that describe his approach as belonging in the "luck" category of distribution philosophies. If there is a subtle distinction that I am missing, it would be interesting to include a brief explanation in the article. --Voljust 20:36, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Well one reason why Rawls is not a LE is that he doesn't believe that people have an entitlement to the fruits of their option luck, and, generally for him entitlements are set by the public rules constitutive of the basic structure and a just distribution is whatever results from the operation of that structure. Since the outcomes of that operation will not be brute luck neutralizing they will fail to be just from a LE POV. Bristoleast 09:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anderson's Critique

I'm not entirely happy with my presentation of Anderson's critique of luck egalitarianism, which it strikes me is perhaps slightly misleading. Anyone who can think of a better example of a choice not legitimating a an outcome because the set of options it is made from is inadequate is welcome to substitute it for the old 'money/life' chestnutRobJubb 14:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Explanation of reversion

I reverted the edits by "Nicodemos" because they introduced some basic errors: N changed the page to say that LEs believe in equalizing the results of luck generally rather than brute luck, and also introduced a change that referred to diffences in "material wealth", thereby departing from neutrality about the appropriate currency for egalitarian justice (resources, welfare, opportunity for welfare) something on which different LEs have differing views. Bristoleast

I understand your concerns, but I would suggest editing the page rather than reverting wholesale. -- Nikodemos 21:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Left or right?

The article states that luck-egalitarianism is left-wing. That maybe the case in the U.S., but it would be considered right-wing in Europe, or at least the Netherlands as the proposed distribution would be favored by the VVD, a right-wing party in the Netherlands. Gebruiker:Dedalus (talk) 13:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)