Envy, Resentment, and Equality

HYBRIS: Revista de Filosofía

Juan Ormeño Karzulovic¹ 

[1] Universidad Diego Portales, Universidad de Chile;

关键词: envidia o resentimiento, igualitarismo, igualdad democrática, la naturaleza social del auto-respeto, rawls, rousseau sobre la autoestima;   

DOI  :  10.5281/zenodo.1320401

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper I contend that the unequal distribution of goods that people think should be objectively equally allocated generates a kind of envy or resentment that characterizes democratic equality. Since this formulation sounds as an objection against egalitarian distributions, my main contention here will be to vindicate a sense of envy or resentment that is specifically social and political in nature. I will argue that the social good of Self-respect links democratic equality with that kind of envy. In effect, this kind of envy arise in case that the unequality threatens the mutual recognition that citizens owe each other

【 授权许可】

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