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Cooperation & Equality Seminar: Jack Holme (Manchester), 'The Super-Rich, Philanthropy, and Equality'

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Dates:10 March 2015
Times:13:00 - 14:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
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Seminar Organised by the Cooperation & Equality Project: http://thomassmit3.wix.com/cooperation-equality

Abstract: Philanthropy aims to mitigate the worst symptoms of injustice in the economic system by means of voluntary transfers of wealth from rich to poor. Yet partisans of left-wing politics, who also aim to overcome these evils, often exhibit a surprising antipathy to philanthropy. Via a relational egalitarian account of the value of equality, I argue that charity manifests inegalitarian social relations between donors and recipients. Consequently, egalitarians often feel a justified ambivalence to philanthropy, which promotes their distributive aims while undermining relational equality. Finally, I outline the conditions under which redistribution can avoid this inegalitarian effect.

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