ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to apply the principle of equal well-being to the sphere of subjectivity to generate the ‘principle of equality of subjectivity’. The sphere of subjectivity, then, is comprised of three significant kinds of goods; goods of self-respect, non-competitive goods of self-esteem and competitive goods of self-esteem. The sphere of subjectivity circumscribes those goods which involve the development and flourishing of our self-reflective nature. The sub-category of goods in the sphere of subjectivity to which equalitarian principles can be straight-forwardly applied are the goods of non-competitive self-esteem. Some readers might object that attempting to implement the principle of equal well-being in the sphere of subjectivity is futile because of the way in which human beings are actually constructed. By increasing one’s self-esteem through the principle of compensatory meritocracy in the eudaimonian sphere, one increases the chances of generating self-respect.
