Equality of Opportunity and Personal Identity |
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Authors: | Neven Petrović |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, The University of Rijeka, Omladinska 14, 51 000 Rijeka, Croatia |
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Abstract: | One of the central theses of egalitarian liberals in the domain of distributive justice is that talented individuals should
not be allowed to keep their entire market-income even if it flows solely from their greater abilities. This claim is usually
supported by one of several arguments or some mixture of them, but in the present paper, I want to concentrate on the version
that invokes equality of opportunity as its starting point. Namely, it is claimed that every human being should enjoy an equal
starting point in the life-race but that this is not secured insofar as some have greater natural talents than others. Therefore,
egalitarians hold that results that arise from such an unfair situation are unjust and should be corrected by a redistributive
taxation. I want to criticize this argument by hoping to show that it presupposes an untenable view about identity of persons.
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Keywords: | Egalitarian liberalism Equality of opportunity Personal identity John Rawls Self-ownership |
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