Luck and Democratic Egalitarianisms: What are they?
The inquiry over justice and equality has been a never-ending debate in social sciences and humanities research. Among the countless speculations of justice, two theories stand out: Luck Egalitarianism (LE), pioneered by John Rawls, and Democratic Egalitarianism (DE), supported by Elizabeth Anderson. I will first introduce these two theories and then tackle how could they be used conjointly to understand equality. Luck egalitarianism, or “the equality for fortune” perspective, maintains that there are two types of unfortunate people. The first group is born with undeserved bad luck, or brute...