Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1986

Abstract

In this paper I will argue that Competitivism should be rejected. No more will be said about competitivist theories of justice, but if Competitivism as a theory of the good is rejected, so must Competitivism as a theory of right be, since the motivation for arranging society so as to maximize the extent to which people excel, or the like, is precisely the assumption that having competitive properties is valuable. My aim will be to show that the possession of such properties contributes nothing of any great importance to our lives: excelling and its kin should be neither intrinsically valuable nor essential to a good life.

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Publication Information

American Philosophical Quarterly

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Philosophy Commons

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