Eguaglianza di risorse e responsabilità consequenziale

This article analyses the concept of consequential responsibility recently made use of by Ronald Dworkin in his book Sovereign Virtue. The aim of the article is twofold. First, to distinguish the arguments that Dworkin puts forward in support of consequential responsibility and of the distributive consequences that must be derived from it. Second, to criticize those arguments. The main conclusion of the article is that Dworkin’s arguments do not work and that, contrary to his intentions, his concept of responsibility is not employed by him to generate a certain distribution of resources. Dworkin’s concept of consequential responsibility should rather be understood as the consequence of a just distribution of resources. If this conclusion follows, then it is not the case that Dworkin’s theory of equality of resources uses the concept of responsibility as a distributive criterion, despite the widespread assumption that this is the case.;

Olof Page, Eguaglianza di risorse e responsabilità consequenziale in "TEORIA POLITICA" 3/2005, pp , DOI: