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- Title
Intuition about Justice: Desertist or Luck Egalitarian?
- Authors
Brouwer, Huub; Mulligan, Thomas
- Abstract
There is a large and growing body of empirical work on people's intuitions about distributive justice. In this paper, we investigate how well luck egalitarianism and desertism—the two normative approaches that appear to cohere well with people's intuitions—are supported by more fine-grained findings in the empirical literature. The time is ripe for a study of this sort, as the positive literature on justice has blossomed over the last three decades. The results of our investigation are surprising. In three different contexts (good option luck, good brute luck, and bad brute luck) in which the demands of luck egalitarianism and those of a mainstream desert-based view come apart, the latter carries the day. One ramification of these findings is that people's intuitions about justice are moralized; that is, they appeal to particular conceptions of the good. Luck egalitarians must decide whether to embrace these moralized intuitions by adopting desertism—or to resist them.
- Subjects
INTUITION; DISTRIBUTIVE justice; EXPERIMENTAL philosophy
- Publication
Journal of Ethics, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
1382-4554
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10892-024-09475-8