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Leaving Nothing to Chance: Equality as Luck Neutralization

By Carl Knight
Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
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By Carl Knight
Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
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The most influential theory of distributive equality to have emerged since John Rawls's justice as fairness is luck egalitarianism, which aims to neutralize the distributive effects of luck. The standard form, brute-luck egalitarianism, advanced by Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, and Ronald Dworkin, allows the unequal consequences of option luck (the results of deliberate gambles) to stand while neutralizing the unequal consequences of brute luck (the results of unchosen risk). Luck egalitari...