On 9 September 2016 Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) together with Danish embassy in Latvia organized a public lecture on “Equality and distribution” presented by Professor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen.
Most egalitarians, e.g. John Rawls, have focused on the distribution of social and economic goods. Recently, they have been criticized by relational egalitarians for this focus. What matters, according to the latter, is that people relate to one another as equals. But perhaps such relations presuppose a distribution of social and economic goods that is not too unequal? So perhaps the two forms of egalitarianism can be reconciled? That this is the case is what lecturer argued in his talk.
About the lecturer:
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (MA in Political Philosophy from University of Essex (1989), D.Phil. degree in Philosophy from Oxford University (1995), dr. phil. degree in philosophy from University of Copenhagen (2005), currently a professor in political theory at the Department of Political Science and Government, School of Business and Social Sciences, at University of Aarhus. Also an adjunct professor at University of Roskilde, and professor II at University of Tromsø. He was a lecturer in philosophy at University of Copenhagen from 1997-2008. Lippert-Rasmussen has written several books, including ‘Luck Egalitarianism,’ ‘The Posthuman Condition,’ ‘Deontology, Responsibility, and Equality’ and ‘Born Free and Equal?’ and he is very engaged in the public debate about equality and distribution.