The Case for Emissions Egalitarianism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-10016-8
Abstract: There is a fixed limit on the greenhouse gas emissions that the atmosphere can absorb before triggering dangerous climate changes. One of the debates in climate ethics concerns how the available emissions should be divided… read more here.
Keywords: case emissions; emissions egalitarianism; egalitarianism;
Preferences, reasoning errors, and resource egalitarianism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0936-z
Abstract: In this paper I aim to examine some problematic implications of the fact that individuals are prone to making systematic reasoning errors, for resource egalitarianism. I begin by disentangling the concepts of preferences, choices and… read more here.
Keywords: errors resource; order; egalitarianism; preferences reasoning ... See more keywords
Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.04.001
Abstract: Social bargaining models predict that men should calibrate their egalitarian attitudes to their formidability and/or attractiveness. A simple social bargaining model predicts a direct negative association between formidability/attractiveness and egalitarianism, whereas a more complex model… read more here.
Keywords: egalitarianism; social bargaining; related bodily; sociopolitical egalitarianism ... See more keywords
The emergence of egalitarianism in a model of early human societies
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00451
Abstract: How did egalitarianism emerge in early human societies? In contrast to dominance hierarchies in non-human primates, human simple forager bands are typically egalitarian, with male hunters often serving as the collective alpha. Here we present… read more here.
Keywords: human societies; egalitarianism; early human; egalitarianism model ... See more keywords
Positive Egalitarianism Reconsidered
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DOI: 10.1017/s0953820819000566
Abstract: Abstract According to positive egalitarianism, not only do relations of inequality have negative value, as negative egalitarians claim, but relations of equality also have positive value. The egalitarian value of a population is a function… read more here.
Keywords: egalitarianism reconsidered; positive egalitarianism; egalitarianism; value ... See more keywords
Exploitation: Bridging Social and Distributive Egalitarianism
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DOI: 10.1177/0032321719882609
Abstract: Social egalitarians have charged distributive egalitarianism with abandoning the victims of option luck, disrespecting victims of brute luck and misunderstanding the aim of egalitarian justice. Social egalitarians have tended to favour a conception of equality… read more here.
Keywords: egalitarianism; bridging social; social egalitarians; exploitation bridging ... See more keywords
Motivated Egalitarianism
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DOI: 10.1177/09637214231154810
Abstract: Much research has examined the link between (anti-)egalitarian ideology and motivated social cognition. However, this research is typically framed around anti-egalitarianism, with the other end of this ideological pole, egalitarianism, often ignored altogether or treated… read more here.
Keywords: ideology; social cognition; motivated egalitarianism; egalitarianism ... See more keywords
The Luck Egalitarianism of G.A. Cohen - A Reply to David Miller
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DOI: 10.1515/sats-2017-0008
Abstract: Abstract The late G.A. Cohen is routinely considered a founding father of luck egalitarianism, a prominent responsibility-sensitive theory of distributive justice. David Miller argues that Cohen’s considered beliefs on distributive justice are not best understood… read more here.
Keywords: egalitarianism; distributive justice; cohen; david miller ... See more keywords
Individualism and Egalitarianism Can Kill: How Cultural Values Predict Coronavirus Deaths Across the Globe
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.620490
Abstract: While in some countries, many people have died due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), in other countries, only a few have died. Based on the cultural values theory, our first hypothesis was that in countries that… read more here.
Keywords: egalitarianism; individualism egalitarianism; coronavirus deaths; cultural values ... See more keywords
Conservation Motivation, Social Equality and Left-Right Ideological Preferences in Western and Eastern Europe
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DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v13i2.1334
Abstract: We investigated how attitudes towards social equality can influence the relationship between conservation motivation (or openness) and personal ideological preferences on the left-right dimension, and how this relationship pattern differs between Western and Central &… read more here.
Keywords: conservation motivation; social equality; egalitarianism; conservation ... See more keywords