 | 2003 - 428 pages
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 | G. M. K. Hunt - 1990 - 162 pages
...describes it creates a condition of equality. How is this claim to be read? Walzer explains it as follows: In formal terms, complex equality means that no citizen's...his children, entrepreneurial opportunities, and so on.23 22 Williams, 'The Idea of Equality', 131. 23 M. Walzer, Spheres of Justice (Oxford: Martin Robertson,... | |
 | James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - 1991 - 448 pages
...the recognition of "complex equality." The regime of complex equality is the opposite of tyranny, ll establishes a set of relationships such that domination...his children, entrepreneurial opportunities, and so on.22 Walzer, in effect, accepts society's historical differentiation into multiple spheres as one... | |
 | James A. Morone, Gary Stuart Belkin - 1994 - 598 pages
...across many different spheres of distribution. Walzer (1983: 19-20) expresses this point by noting that citizen X may be chosen over citizen Y for political...relation of equality to the men and women they govern . The conclusion of this argument forbids any good from serving as the basis for access to other goods... | |
 | David Ingram - 1995 - 486 pages
...unequal generally so long as X's office gives him no advantages over Y in any other sphere—superior medical care, access to better schools for his children, entrepreneurial opportunities, and so on. (19) In Walzer's opinion, then, fairly large—even monopolistic—inequalities in the distribution... | |
 | Louis P. Pojman - 1997 - 340 pages
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In formal terms, complex equality means that no citizen's standing in one sphere or with regard to one social good can be undercut by his standing in some other sphere, with regard to some other good. Thus, citizen X may be chosen over citizen Y for political... 
