Fraternity and Equality

Cupit, Geoffrey

Fraternity and Equality

dc.contributor.author	Cupit, Geoffrey
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-16T21:24:32Z
dc.date.copyright	2013-04-18
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	Is there a connection between the values of fraternity and outcome equality? Is inequality at odds with fraternity? There are reasons to doubt that it is. First, fraternity requires us to want our ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ to fare well even when they are already better off than we are and their doing better will increase inequality. Second, fraternity seems not to require equality as a matter of fairness. Fairness requires (a certain) equality, but fraternity does not require fairness. In examining what fraternity requires I discuss Rawls' suggestion that the difference principle corresponds to a natural meaning of fraternity, arguing that fraternity may be even more tolerant of inequality than the difference principle. Nevertheless, I defend the claim that fraternity and equality are linked, albeit not in such a way as to make inequality inconsistent with fraternity. Fraternity is related to equality since equalizing expresses the connectedness at the core of fraternity; but inequality is consistent with fraternity since there are other ways of expressing that connectedness.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Cupit, G. (2013). Fraternity and equality. Philosophy, 88(2), 299-311.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi	10.1017/S0031819113000089	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7617
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Cambridge	en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOf	Philosophy	en_NZ
dc.relation.ispartof	Philosophy
dc.relation.uri	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8889228	en_NZ
dc.subject	fraternity	en_NZ
dc.title	Fraternity and Equality	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article	en_NZ
pubs.begin-page	299	en_NZ
pubs.elements-id	38416
pubs.end-page	311	en_NZ
pubs.issue	2	en_NZ
pubs.volume	88	en_NZ