Relational egalitarianism

Abstract

Abstract In the past few decades, there has been a growing literature on relational egalitarianism . Relational egalitarianism is a view on the nature and value of equality. In contrast to the dominant view in recent debates on equality— distributive egalitarianism , on which equality is about ensuring people have or fare the same in some respect—on the relational view, equality is a matter of the terms on which relationships are structured. But what exactly does it mean for people to relate as equals? And why are relations of equality valuable? Relational egalitarians have offered quite different answers to each of these questions. In this article, I draw attention to some key issues that underlie these disagreements, and I offer a taxonomy of different viewpoints that have emerged in the recent literature on these matters.

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