id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bhne6equxnbdjirsg7lbkugzoa John Thrasher When Justice Demands Inequality 2015 23 .pdf application/pdf 10905 626 65 Cohen's commitment to equality, his view requires that we make room for inequality there is no inherent tension between freedom, equality, and Pareto (welfare).2 All three values, Cohen argues, are co-achievable. Cohen refers to this idea—that justice requires us to adopt an egalitarian ethos—as the Ethical Solution, and he suggests that it is capable of nothing but slaves to social justice."4 In §3, we argue that Cohen's discussion of prerogatives and his concern with dissolving the trilemma shows argue, contra Cohen, that freedom, equality, and Pareto, as metrics for evaluating states of affairs cannot always be mutually satisfied. Cohen's argument is that once the Epicurean Doctor realizes the importance of equality she would (or should) change her preferences. demands of egalitarian justice must fall "within the constraint of a reasonable personal prerogative, deference to which informs the whole of the following discussion"—only a moral rigorist, he argues, could deny a place for ./cache/work_bhne6equxnbdjirsg7lbkugzoa.pdf ./txt/work_bhne6equxnbdjirsg7lbkugzoa.txt