Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered

Utilitas 34 (1):19-38 (2022)
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According topositive egalitarianism, not only do relations of inequality have negative value, as negative egalitarians claim, but relations of equality also have positive value. The egalitarian value of a population is a function of both pairwise relations of inequality (negative) and pairwise relations of equality (positive). Positive andnegative egalitarianismdiverge, especially in different-number cases. Hence, an investigation of positive egalitarianism might shed new light on the vexed topic of population ethics and our duties to future generations. We shall here, in light of some recent criticism, further develop the idea of giving positive value to equal relations.

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Gustaf Arrhenius
Stockholm University
Julia Mosquera
Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm

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