Lawford-Smith, H. (2016) Offsetting Class Privilege. Journal of Practical Ethics, 4 (1). pp. 23-51. ISSN 2051-655X
Abstract
The UK is an unequal society. Societies like these raise significant ethical questions for those who live in them. One is how they should respond to such inequality, and in particular, to its effects on those who are worst-off. In this article, I’ll approach this question by focusing on the obligations of a particular group of those who are best-off. I’ll defend the idea of morally objectionable class-based advantage, which I’ll call ‘class privilege’, argue that class privilege can be non-culpable, and put forward an account of the obligations those with class privilege have. My main claim will be that those with class privilege have obligations to ‘offset’ their privilege, in something like the same way high emitters have obligations to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | The material in this journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported licence. The full text of the licence is available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode © University of Oxford 2013 except as otherwise explicitly specified. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FP6/FP7 618516 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2016 10:34 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2016 10:34 |
Published Version: | http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/papers/offsetting-class-pr... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102749 |