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Equality as the virtue of sovereigns: A reply to Ronald Dworkin
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In "Equality, Luck, and Hierarchy," Ronald Dworkin raises a number of objections to my article "What is Egalitarianism?"1 In this reply, I will respond briefly to his main objections.
I. IS DWORKIN A LUCK EGALITARIAN?
My article was not a review of Sovereign Virtue nor was it primarily a critique of Dworkin's theory. The article's primary topic was the position that Anderson has labeled "luck egalitarianism." I said at the outset of the article that there are many different versions of luck egalitarianism, but that they share a common core idea. The core idea is that inequalities deriving ...
