A distinctive feature of Dworkin’s conception of liberal equality is its accommodation of individuals’ own ethical convictions in the assessment of the extent to which justice prevails. In Sovereign Virtue, Dworkin defends that accommodation by appeal to his challenge model of ethics. Noting that liberal equality might be attractive to political liberals, this article critically examines Dworkin’s derivation of resource egalitarianism from the challenge model. It argues that his claims concerning ethical integrity and the parametric status of justice with respect to well-being are compatible with the rejection liberal equality
