... to goods differ both quantitatively and in strength, and it defends a fragment of a theory of fairness. The chapter ends with a discussion of two other philosophical theories of fairness, which are due to Larry Temkin and Matthew Adler. Eastwood N Elster J fairness Fugitive Slave Act Kirkpatrick J...

... worse off than the average must obtain more from the better-off in order for all to be on the average level. This account of when one unjust inequality is worse than another relies heavily on Larry Temkin’s ground-breaking discussion. Anti inegalitarianism Feldman F Justice fairness Parfit D...

... Toni Scanlon T M Schroeder Mark Suikkanen Jussi value Way Jonathan Repugnant Conclusion Mere Addition Paradox objectives alternatives sets of ought Reasons contrastivism intransitivity Derek Parfit Larry Temkin Stuart Rachels In Chapter 4 , I developed a version of contrastivism (which...

.... Sections 5.3 and 5.4 consider two objections to intra-personal aggregation and attempts to defend formal intra-personal aggregation from these objections. Section 5.3 considers and rejects Larry Temkin’s objection to intra-personal continuity on the basis of counterexample. Section 5.4 examines David...

... ‘Threshold Priority View’ the Streeten P Egalitarianism instrumental value of Locke J decent society characteristics of human rights Roger Crisp egalitarianism equality equity future generations humanitarianism prioritarianism resources Larry Temkin The moral claim of ‘sustainable development...

... Hare R M Kim J Moore G E Temkin L Essentially comparative view Rachels S Equality Disperse additional burdens view Voorhoeve A Derek Parfit repugnant conclusion supervenience of value non-transitivity of ‘better (worse) than’ Larry Temkin It is clarifying to keep the distinction between...

... not the transitivity of the “better than”-relation, as Larry Temkin has argued, but instead a different, and less sacrosanct, idea, namely the so-called Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives principle. What Parfit’s puzzle teaches us is that betterness is sometimes context-dependent: the relative...