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Equality between Age-Groups
In: Philosophy & public affairs, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-295
ISSN: 0048-3915
It is argued that egalitarian principles apply to temporal stages of lives as well as to complete lives. Norman Daniels's theory of justice between age groups (eg, see Am I My Parents' Keeper?, Oxford: Oxford U Press, 1988) is criticized, & two alternative theories are suggested: the first objects to inequality during people's lives even if the inequality is compensated for in terms of complete lives, & the second applies an egalitarian notion of priority to the contents of people's lives rather than to the overall quality of their complete lives. Modified AA
