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标题：Are egalitarians really vulnerable to the Levelling-Down Objection and the Divided World Example?
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作者：S. Subramanian
期刊名称：Journal of Philosophical Economics
印刷版ISSN：1843-2298
电子版ISSN：1844-8208
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：5-14
语种：English
出版社：Rosetti Internaţional
摘要：This essay is a quick critique of one aspect of Derek Parfit’s criticism of Egalitarianism in his larger consideration of the claims of, and distinction between, Prioritarianism and Egalitarianism. It reviews issues relating to the ‘Levelling Down Objection’ and the ‘Divided World Example’. More specifically, it is argued that the Levelling Down Objection is a serious problem only for Pure Telic Egalitarianism, not for Pluralist Telic Egalitarianism; and that even in a Divided World, one can have an egalitarian justification for preferring an equal distribution of a smaller sum of wellbeing to an unequal distribution of a larger sum. By these means, it is contended that Parfit’s claim of the vulnerability of Egalitarianism to the Levelling Down Objection and the Divided World Example is not sustainable.
关键词：pure and pluralist telic egalitarianism;deontic egalitarianism;prioritarianism