✦ LIBER ✦
Distributional equality in non-classical utilitarianism — A proof of Lerner's theorem for ‘utilitarianism incorporating justice’
✍ Scribed by A. Schäfer; R. W. Trapp
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 681 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-5833
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✦ Synopsis
The paper initially proposes a non-classical utilitarian aggregation function which is accomplished by suitably weaving around the classical utilitarian function a group of parameters of justice (including desert factors and a sublinear measure of inequality which mathematically favours more equal distribution of utility levels). Then the Lernertheorem for classical utilitarianism is first proved in a way which differs from each of the earlier proofs presented for this theorem and in the core of the paper also extended to this new non-classical version of utilitarianism.