How Do People React to (In)Equality and (In)Justice? A Psychological Approach
This chapter first discusses the psychological relationship between (in)equality and (in)justice. Focusing on distributive justice, different justice principles (equality, equity, need) will be outlined showing that psychologically inequality is neither f
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Equality
François Levrau · Noel Clycq Editors
Equality Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Editors François Levrau University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium
Noel Clycq University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium
ISBN 978-3-030-54309-9 ISBN 978-3-030-54310-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54310-5
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Preface
At least since the Enlightenment the idea of ‘equality’ has served as one of the main political and normative discursive ideals in European and North-American societies. Notwithstanding the consensus on the importance of this idea(l), explaining what it exactly entails has turned out to be quite difficult. After all, if we agree that people are to be respected as each other’s moral equals, what then are the political, social, economic and normative consequences? Different visions have been proposed and so it is not entirely surprising that in current societies still a lot of turmoil exists around equality related issues. Indeed, enduring and even increasing patterns of socioeconomic inequality have led to fierce political, philosophical and public discussions. However, contestations about how (un)equal societies are today, should not be mixed up with contestations about what kind of equality should be aimed at. These issues should be carefully disentangled as it should be explained that the answer to the latter has implications for the answer to the former. For example, those who defend ‘equality of opportunity’ would not argue ‘inequalities of outcom
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