Name: Strokes of Luck: A Study in Moral and Political Philosophy (en Inglés)
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Author: Lang, Gerald
ISBN: 9780198868507

portada Strokes of Luck: A Study in Moral and Political Philosophy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Gerald Lang

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

19.3 x 16.0 x 1.0 cm

Peso

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9780198868507

Categorías

Filosofía ética y moral
Filosofía social y política

Strokes of Luck: A Study in Moral and Political Philosophy (en Inglés)

Gerald Lang (Autor) · Oxford University Press, USA · Tapa Dura

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Strokes of Luck provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. The first part tackles debates in moral luck, which are concerned with the assignment of blameworthiness to individuals who are separated only by lucky differences.'Anti-luckists' think that one who, for example, attempts and succeeds in an assassination and one who attempts and fails are equally blameworthy. This book defends an anti-anti-luckist argument, according to which the successful assassin is more blameworthy than the unsuccessful one. Moreover, thesuccessful assassin is, all things equal, a worse person than the unsuccessful one. The worldly outcomes of our acts can make an all-important difference, not only to how bad our acts can be deemed, but to how bad we are. The second part enters into debates about distributive justice. Lang arguesthat the attempt to neutralize luck in the distribution of advantages among individuals does not deserve its prominence in political philosophy: the 'luck egalitarian' programme is flawed. A better way forward is to re-invest in John Rawls's 'justice as fairness', which demonstrates a superior wayof taming the bad effects of luck and unchosen disadvantage.