Arguing about justice

Essays for Philippe Van Parijs

Axel Gosseries, Philippe Vanderborght

• Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9782875581969
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

This book brings together fifty of today's finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs's sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his attention over the years, especially with the various dimensions of justice, its scope, and its demands. They discuss issues ranging from the fair distribution of marriage opportunities to the limits of argumentation in a democracy, the deep roots of inequality, the challenges to basic income and the requirements of linguistic justice. They provide ample food for thought for both academic and general readers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• On the contributors and editors
• Abstracts
• Foreword
• Using the internet to save journalism from the internet
• Marriages as assets? Real freedom and relational freedom
• The guaranteed income as an equal-opportunity tool in the transition toward sustainability
• The ideal of self-development: personal or political?
• Reflections on the limits of argument
• Taxation, fees and social justice
• Real freedom for all turtles in Sugarscape?
• Linguistic diversity and economic security are complements
• Legitimate partiality, parents and patriots
• Individual responsibility and social policy: the case of school allowances and truancy
• Distributing freedom over whole lives
• Love not war. On the chemistry of good and evil
• Why do we blame survivors?
• Why big ideas never change society
• Cooperative justice and opportunity costs
• Too much punishment and too little forgiveness in the Eurozone
• Talking about democracy
• Let’s Brusselize the world!
• Translations: economic efficiency and linguistic justice
• If Marx or Freud had never lived?
• English or Esperanto: a case for levelling down?
• The breeder's welfare state: a cautionary note
• A mobile water project: mobile-for-development meets human-centered design
• Prospects for basic income: a British perspective
• Should a Marxist believe in human rights?
• Why has Cuban state socialism escaped its "1989"?
• A universal duty to care
• The ideological roots of inequality and what is to be done
• Philosophers and taboo trade-offs in health care
• Multilingual democracy and public sphere: what Belgium and the EU can learn from each other
• On genetic inequality
• A federal electoral district for Belgium?
• Towards an unconditional basic income in Brazil?
• Is it always better to clear up misunderstandings?
• Why auntie's boring tea parties matter for the fair distribution of gifts
• Lamentation in the face of historical necessity
• Self-determination for (some) cities?
• Why we demand an unconditional basic income: the ECSO freedom case
• Linguistic protectionism and wealth maximinimization
• In defense of genderlessness
• The capitalist road to communism: are we there yet?