Ideal of Equality

MATTHEW CLAYTON is Lecturer in Government at Brunel University. - ANDREW WILLIAMS is Research Fellow in Public Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

'The editors are to be congratulated on having put together a collection of leading contributions to the debate about equality among political philosophers in recent years. A number of the pieces are quite hard to obtain, so their appearance is doubly welcome.' - Brian Barry, Columbia University

• List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Some Questions for Egalitarians; M.Clayton & A.Williams Reply to Alexander and Musgrave (extracts); J.Rawls The Diversity of Objections to Inequality; T.M.Scanlon Equality; T.Nagel Equality or Priority?; D.Parfit Equality, Priority, and the Levelling Down Objection; L.Temkin The Pareto Argument for Inequality (extracts); G.A.Cohen Equal Opportunities for Welfare (extracts); R.Arneson Justice in the Distribution of Health Care; R.Dworkin Further Reading Index