Equality and family values: conflict or harmony?

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3):301-313 (2018)
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This paper provides a critical commentary on the claim advanced by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift in their book Family Values: The Ethics of Parent–Child Relationships that there is an ineliminable conflict between relationship goods and fair equality of opportunity. I argue there need be no conflict between family values and equality of opportunity in a suitably non-hierarchical society. I also argue that the idea that equality of opportunity might be served by abolishing the family is mistaken. Egalitarian justice does not provide an obstacle to the realization of family values.

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Colin Macleod
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What abolishing the family would not do.Anca Gheaus - 2018 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3):284-300.

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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.C. L. Ten - 2003 - Mind 112 (447):563-566.

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