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How Much of What Matters Can We Redistribute? Love, Justice, and Luck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Anca Gheaus
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Abstract

By meeting needs for individualized love and relatedness, the care we receive deeply shapes our social and economic chances and therefore represents a form of luck. Hence, distributive justice requires a fair distribution of care in society. I look at different ways of ensuring this and argue that full redistribution of care is beyond our reach. I conclude that a strong individual morality informed by an ethics of care is a necessary complement of well-designed institutions.

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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 2009 , pp. 63 - 83
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Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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