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  1. Is Justice Binary?: A Free-Will-Related Exploration.Saul Smilansky - 2003 - Metaphilosophy 34 (4):476-487.
    This article asks whether justice is binary, whether matters are either-or with respect to it. This question has been inexplicably neglected, and the elementary conceptual work has not been done. We consider this question through exploring the implications of free-will-related justice. We see that there are actually two questions of very different scope here, and that two distinct notions of binarity need to be distinguished. In the process, the plausibility of considering justice as a binary notion is evaluated.
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  • Free will, egalitarianism and Rawls.Saul Smilansky - 2003 - Philosophia 31 (1-2):127-138.
  • Reflections on Equality, Value and Paradox.Saul Smilansky - 2015 - Res Cogitans 10 (1).
    I consider two difficulties which have been presented to egalitarianism: Parfit’s “Levelling Down Objection” and my “Paradox of the Baseline”. I show that making things worse for some people even with no gain to anyone is actually an ordinary and indeed necessary feature of our moral practice, yet nevertheless the LDO maintains its power in the egalitarian context. I claim that what makes the LDO particularly forceful in the case against egalitarianism is not the very idea of making some people (...)
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