Individual preferences and social justice
AUTOR(ES)
Vita, Álvaro de
FONTE
Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2000
RESUMO
The article examines John Harsanyi's influential account on welfarism, according to which the satisfaction of individual preferences ought to be seen as the ultimate foundation of our social welfare (or social justice) judgments. The author argues that welfarism provides a very defective morality and that we should strive to identify a non-subjective moral foundation to interpersonal comparison of well-being.
