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Elizabeth Anderson’s article appeared in the journal Ethics in 1999 and is among the most cited papers in recent political philosophy. Her target is “luck egalitarianism”, associated with Ronald Dworkin, Richard Arneson and G. A. Cohen, for which justice means compensating people for bad luck they did not choose but not for the consequences of their own choices. Anderson argues that this abandons the imprudent and treats the unlucky with demeaning pity. She proposes “democratic equality” instead: the point of equality is to end oppression and allow people to stand in relations of equality, which requires securing for everyone the capabilities needed to function as a citizen, an idea taken from Amartya Sen.

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