Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism

Gosseries, Axel
(2023) Ageing without ageism? Conceptual puzzles and practical proposals — ISBN: [9780192894090], p. 82-93, published

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This chapter explores the interplay between the changing nature of our age, the use of age limits and a certain understanding of the egalitarian ideal, namely that which is concerned about equality over entire lives. I first briefly present this understanding of the egalitarian ideal of justice. I then explore in three steps the nature of the relationship between age criteria and this understanding of the egalitarian ideal. The goal is to assess the extent to which this egalitarian ideal can account for the normative specialness of age (if any). The chapter shows that whenever age limits are justified, the entire life egalitarian idea may actually play a central role in only a limited number of such cases.
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Gosseries, A. (2023). Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism. In Bognar, Greg (ed.), Ageing without ageism? Conceptual puzzles and practical proposals (p. p. 82-93). Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/225481