Philippe Van Parijs

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Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs (born May 23, 1951 in Brussels ) is a Belgian philosopher and economist.

He studied philosophy , political economy , sociology , law and linguistics and received a PhD in philosophy from Oxford . As a professor, he headed the Hoover Chair in Economics and Social Ethics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and was a visiting professor of philosophy at Harvard University .

Unconditional basic income

Van Parijs is best known for his advocacy of an unconditional basic income and his academic work on the subject. In 1986 he founded the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN, German: global network basic income, formerly Basic Income European Network), of which he was also secretary. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Basic Income Network , the German organization in BIEN. Important works that have shaped the international discussion about a basic income are Arguing for Basic Income. Ethical foundations for a radical reform ( Lit .: Van Parijs, 1992) and Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism? ( Lit .: Van Parijs, 1995)

Language justice and language control

Another suggestion by van Parijs is the language tax , according to which the country or countries whose language has established itself as the lingua franca should pay support to all other countries for training in this language. But he himself sees this as unrealistic.

Award

In 2001 Van Parijs was awarded the Francqui Prize , the highest Belgian academic award.

literature

  • Philippe Van Parijs: Evolutionary explanation in the social sciences: an emerging paradigm . Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa 1981, ISBN 0-8476-6288-8 .
  • Philippe Van Parijs (Ed.): Arguing for Basic Income. Ethical foundations for a radical reform . Verso, London, New York 1992, ISBN 0-86091-371-6 .
  • Philippe Van Parijs: Real freedom for all: what (if anything) can justify capitalism? . Clarendon Press, Oxford (et al.) 1995, ISBN 0-19-827905-1 .
  • Philippe Van Parijs (ed.): Cultural diversity versus economic solidarity. Proceedings of the Seventh Francqui Colloquium, Brussels, February 28 - March 1, 2003 . Bibliothèque scientifique Francqui, No. 6. De Boeck, Brussels 2004, ISBN 2-8041-4660-X .
  • Yannick Vanderborght, Philippe Van Parijs: A basic income for everyone? History and future of a radical proposal . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-593-37889-2 .
  • Linguistic justice - for Europe and the world . Suhrkamp Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-58595-5 (English: Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World . Translated by Michael Adrian and Nikolaus Gramm).
  • Belgium. Une utopia for notre temps. Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels 2018, ISBN 978-2-8031-0647-9 .

Web links

Commons : Philippe Van Parijs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basic Income Network : Scientific Advisory Board. In: grundeinkommen.de . Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Book presentation on RTBF.de (Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française) on June 18, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Van Parijs, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian economist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels