Equality as the virtue of sovereigns: A reply to ronald dworkin

Philosophy and Public Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-206

  ScHeffler, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34248048677     PISSN: 00483915     EISSN: 10884963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2003.00199.x     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. I. Ronald Dworkin, "Equality, Luck and Hierarchy," Philosophy & Public Affairs 31 (2003): 190-98 (referred to hereafter as ELH, with page references given parenthetically in the text).
2. My article, "What is Egalitarianism?," appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs 31 (2003): 5-39. This article will be referred to hereafter as WE, with page references again given parenthetically in the text.
3. I will also give parenthetical page references to Dworkin's book Sovereign Virtue (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), which I will refer to as SV.
4. In his reply, Dworkin construes the point about power as applying only to the distribution of influence, and he responds that 'influence' is just a "technical term" for him (ELH, p. 196). But, as I noted in my article, what he says in Sovereign Virtue is that "impact and influence" are "the two modes of power" (p. 199), and that his theory allows a "limited place for equality of impact but none for equality of influence" (p. 200).
5. I anticipated that response, and replied to it, in n. 72 of my article.