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Equality and Justice: Remarks on a Necessary Relationship
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Equality and Justice: Remarks on a Necessary Relationship

Birgit Christensen and Andrew F. Smith
Hypatia, v 20(2), pp 155-163
01 Apr 2005

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Economic theory Gender equality Humans Hunger Income inequality Justice and Responsibility Misfortune Political debate Political power Respect Social inequality
The processes associated with globalization have reinforced and even increased prevailing conditions of inequality among human beings with respect to their political, economic, cultural, and social opportunities. Yet-or perhaps precisely because of this trend-there has been, within political philosophy, an observable tendency to question whether equality in fact should be treated a as central value within a theory of justice. In response, I examine a number of nonegalitarian positions to try to show that the concept of equality cannot be dispensed with in any adequate consideration of justice.

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