Students completing Theories of Equality will be given the skills needed to read an
advanced theoretical literature in a critical and intelligent fashion, and to employ
this literature in order to pursue their own empirical and formal research.  The
course will focus on the formal and substantive approaches employed to design,
justify and implement egalitarian thought.  It will be taught through a mixture of
lectures and seminar discussion.

I. Introduction
Overview of major approaches to egalitarian justice
Overview of substantive research issues in egalitarian justice
Egalitarian justice and strategies of justification
How to conceptualize/formulate valid arguments relating to egalitarian justice 

II. Substantive Issues
Central Issues: Impartiality, Moral Arbitrariness,        
Responsibility 
Central Concerns: expensive tastes; heterogeneity; 
incompleteness 
General Methods of Justification: balancing concerns regarding
arbitrariness and responsibility; defining fundamental
egalitarian concerns   

III. Designing Research Questions
Assessing Quality of Life
The problem of competing moral concerns
Conflicts between liberty and equality
Defining a currency of egalitarian Justice: welfare, 
resources, opportunity for welfare; opportunity for 
resources, or capabilities?

All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A Culture of Honesty."  
Students are responsible for informing themselves about these standards before 
performing academic work.  The penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and 
ignorance is not an acceptable defense.  Also note that the course syllabus is a 
general plan for the course and that deviations announced to the class by the 
instructor may be necessary.  (www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm)