Chapter 8 How Being Better Off Is Bad for You

In this chapter Fourie identifies and systematizes the impairments associated with having privilege, and evaluates their implications for theories of relational equality and distributive justice. Having certain social privileges, for example being a man in a patriarchal society, can also be damaging...

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Päätekijä: Fourie, Carina
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description In this chapter Fourie identifies and systematizes the impairments associated with having privilege, and evaluates their implications for theories of relational equality and distributive justice. Having certain social privileges, for example being a man in a patriarchal society, can also be damaging; in other words, there are “impairments of privilege”. Fourie delineates six kinds of impairments–epistemic, evaluative, emotional, health-related, affiliative, and moral. She then goes on to assess the implications of the impairments of privilege for two theories in political philosophy. Relational egalitarianism, she argues, has the theoretical resources to identify and address the problems associated with these impairments, whereas distributive egalitarianism does not. Furthermore, she argues that assessing the impairments of privilege through relational egalitarianism helps to characterize a society of equals: we must address the causes of functional impairments, express respect for the worse off by not normalizing the experiences of the privileged, and minimize competitive positionality.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-721482025-08-13T14:11:13Z Chapter 8 How Being Better Off Is Bad for You Fourie, Carina philosophy, autonomy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, equity, social philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy In this chapter Fourie identifies and systematizes the impairments associated with having privilege, and evaluates their implications for theories of relational equality and distributive justice. Having certain social privileges, for example being a man in a patriarchal society, can also be damaging; in other words, there are “impairments of privilege”. Fourie delineates six kinds of impairments–epistemic, evaluative, emotional, health-related, affiliative, and moral. She then goes on to assess the implications of the impairments of privilege for two theories in political philosophy. Relational egalitarianism, she argues, has the theoretical resources to identify and address the problems associated with these impairments, whereas distributive egalitarianism does not. Furthermore, she argues that assessing the impairments of privilege through relational egalitarianism helps to characterize a society of equals: we must address the causes of functional impairments, express respect for the worse off by not normalizing the experiences of the privileged, and minimize competitive positionality. 2021-10-07T04:04:30Z 2021-10-07T04:04:30Z 2021-10-06T13:22:31Z 2022 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50844 9780367416898 9781032122878 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72148 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50844/1/9780367823344.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50844/1/9780367823344.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780367823344-8 10.4324/9780367823344-8 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Autonomy and Equality University of Washington 1286a4ee-cbd7-4645-97e6-bb22a666b4f4 9780367416898 9781032122878 Routledge 27 open access
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Chapter 8 How Being Better Off Is Bad for You
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