Why Limitarianism?Ingrid Robeyns
28 October 2021
Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University), 17:15 - 18:45, presents her project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.
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Abstract
In this talk, I will discuss ‘limitarianism’, which is the view that there should be upper limits to how much we can have of scarce goods, including income and wealth. Limitarianism is a view for the world as it is and for nearby possible worlds; it is unlikely that it holds for all possible approaches to distributive ethics. I will briefly discuss some reasons that have been advanced for limitarianism, but then focus on the question what kind of view this is. I will also respond to a recent critique that given that we have the principles of suffientarianism and egalitarianism, we don’t need limitarianism. The talk concludes with outlining some elements of a future research agenda on limitarianism.