Many theories of social justice maintain that concern for the social bases of self-respect grounds demanding requirements of political and economic equality, as self-respect is supposed to be dependent on continuous just recognition by others. This paper argues that such views miss an important feature of self-respect, which accounts for much of its value: self-respect is a capacity for self-orientation that is robust under adversity. This does not mean that there are no social bases of self-respect that such theories ought to incorporate. It means that they are different: they consist of the motivational and epistemic resources needed to develop and maintain such robustness.

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真正的自尊及其社会基础

许多社会正义理论认为，对自尊的社会基础的关注要求政治和经济平等，因为自尊应该依赖于他人的持续公正承认。本文认为，这些观点忽略了自尊的一个重要特征，而这正是其价值的大部分：自尊是一种在逆境中保持强大的自我定位能力。这并不意味着这些理论不应该包含自尊的社会基础。这意味着它们是不同的：它们由发展和保持这种稳健性所需的动机和认知资源组成。