Book in Progress #7 - Carl Knight

Leaving nothing to chance

The most prominent theory of distributive justice to have emerged since John Rawls’ justice as fairness is ‘luck egalitarianism’, which aims to accommodate considerations of individual responsibility within a theory of equality. The standard luck egalitarian view, ‘brute-luck egalitarianism’, allows the unequal consequences of option luck (the results of deliberate gambles) to stand while neutralizing the consequences of brute luck (the results of unchosen risk). Leaving Nothing to Chance will provide the first sustained elaboration and defence of a radical form of luck egalitarianism known as ‘all-luck egalitarianism’, which unlike brute-luck egalitarianism neutralizes the consequences of option luck as well as brute luck.