Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of a basic income and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice. In 2020, he was listed by Prospect as the eighth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, with the magazine writing, “Today’s young UBI enthusiasts draw on the books and tap the networks of this Belgian polymath, who championed it before it was fashionable. For decades, he has warned that our proclaimed freedoms to start businesses or raise children count for nothing without the real freedom that comes with a basic income”.

Philippe van Parijs, ‘The biggest objection to a basic income is moral’

Sep 29, 2018 – According to van Parijs, the biggest objection to the RBUI is not economic, but moral, and comes from both the right and the left. “We need a strong moral argument that supports the need for a UBI… The value behind basic income is therefore justice, not charity or solidarity.”
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