Week 6: Does it matter for its own sake how benefits are distributed?

Key readings

• Derek Parfit, Equality and priority, Ratio, vol. 10, no. 3 (December, 1997), pp. 202-221.
• Paula Casal, Why sufficiency is not enough, Ethics, vol. 117, no. 2 (January, 2007), pp. 296-326.

Further reading

• Elizabeth Anderson, What is the point of equality, Ethics, vol. 109, no. 2 (January, 1999), pp. 287-337.
• Roger Crisp, Equality, priority and compassion, Ethics, vol. 113, no. 4 (July 2003), pp. 745-763.
• Michael Otsuka & Alex Voorhoeve, Why it matters that some are worse off than others: an argument against the priority view, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 37, no. 2 (Spring, 2009), pp. 171–199.
• Larry Temkin, Egalitarianism defended, Ethics, vol. 113, no. 4 (July, 2003), pp. 764-782.