Ideja univerzalnega temeljnega dohodka (UTD) govori o tem, da naj bi vsi clani druzbe imeli zajamcen temeljni dohodek. Drzava naj bi UTD izplacevala v enotni visini in rednih presledkih vsakemu clanu druzbe, ne glede na njegov socialni ali materialni polozaj, ter brez kakrsnihkoli pogojev in omejitev.
Kaksne politicne moznosti torej sploh ima UTD? Kljub argumentaciji nasprotnikov se je ideja UTD do neke mere ze uveljavila: za svojo so jo sprejeli nekateri politicni in druzbeni akterji, stevilne vlade so idejo proucevale, zanjo so se zavzeli sindikati, ekoloska gibanja in razlicne politicne stranke.
Po mnenju nekaterih zagovornikov ideje UTD bi sele z njegovo uveljavitvijo zagotovili temeljni cilj demokraticne druzbene ureditve – dejansko svobodo za vse clane druzbe.
Leta 2004 smo pri Zalozbi Krtina (www.zalozbakrtina.si) izdali knjigo Brezplacno kosilo za vse? Predlog univerzalnega temeljnega dohodka, kjer so ob Van Parijsovem besedilu zbrana razmisljanja tujih in slovenskih zagovornikov in nasprotnikov ideje UTD.
Vljudno vabljeni!
- PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS
Born 23.5.1951 in Berchem Sainte Agathe (Brussels, Belgium)
Married to Susan C. Black, father of Rebecca, Jonathan, Benjamin and Sarah.
Work address:
Université catholique de Louvain,
Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale
3 Place Montesquieu, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Tel.: (32) 10 47 3950; Secr.: (32) 10 47 3951; Fax: (32) 10 47 3952.
E-mail: vanparijs@etes.ucl.ac.be Web : http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/
Home address :
17 rue de Pavie, B-1000 Brussel, Belgium
Advanced degrees
• Doctorate, Université catholique de Louvain, Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, 1977
• DPhil, Oxford University, Subfaculty of Philosophy, 1980
Academic positions
Université catholique de Louvain
• 1980-91 : Chargé d’enseignement
• 1991-95 : Professeur
• 1995- : Professeur ordinaire
• 1991- : Responsable de la Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale
Harvard University
• 2004- : Visiting Professor (Department of Philosophy)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• 2006- : Visiting Professor (Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte)
Ecole normale supérieure (Paris)
• 2007 : Visiting Professor (Département de philosophie)
Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (Brussels)
• 1974-80: Junior research fellow
• 1980-91: Senior research fellow
Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels)
• 1979-83 : Chargé de cours invité
Other professional responsibilities
• Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University : 2005-
• Member of the board of
• the Basic Income European Network: 1988-2004 (as newsletter editor and secretary)
• the Basic Income Earth Network : 2004- (as chairman of the International Board)
• the Société philosophique de Louvain: 1996-2000
• the Academia Belgica (Rome): 2002-
• the European Quarter Fund of the King Baudouin Foundation (Brussels) : 2002-
• Coordinator of the annual Ethical Forum of the University Foundation (Brussels) : 2001-2004
• Member of the editorial board of
• Ethics, Chicago (1991-)
• The Journal of Political Philosophy, Oxford & Canberra (1991-)
• Philosophiques, Montréal (1992-2000)
• The European Journal of Philosophy, Oxford (1992-)
• Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Amsterdam (1996-)
• Ethical Perspectives, Leuven (1996-)
• Philosophical Explorations, Utrecht (1997-2005)
• Revue de philosophie économique, Aix-Marseille (1997-)
• Ethiek en Maatschappij, Gent (1999-)
• Raisons politiques, Paris (2000-)
• The Journal of Ethics, San Diego (2000-)
• Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, New Orleans (2000-)
• Raison publique, Paris (2002-)
• Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Essex (2002-)
• Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge (2002-06)
• Economica, Rio de Janeiro (2003-)
• European Journal of Political Theory, London (2005-)
• Sin permiso, Barcelona-Mexico-Buenos Aires (2005-)
• Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Nova Scotia (2006-)
• Basic Income Studies, Berkeley & Valencia (2006-)
• Egalitarian Theory ad Political Practice, Berkeley & Reading (2007-)
• Member of the advisory board of
• the Ethikon Institute (Los Angeles, 1989-95)
• the Dictionnaire de philosophie morale (Paris: P.U.F., 1993-96)
• the book series Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy (Berlin: Springer, 1994-)
• the book series Contemporary Political Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1995-)
• the International Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (Berlin : Springer, 2006-)
• the Erasmus Institute of Philosophy and Economics (Rotterdam, 1997-)
• the International Labour Organisation's Programme on Socio-Economic Security (Geneva, 1999-)
• the « Language and Politics » Project of the International Political Science Association (2000-)
• the Centro interuniversitario di Studi sul Welfare State (Siena - Milano Bocconi - Roma, 2002-)
• the Department of social sciences of the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris, 2004-)
• the International Povery Center, United Nations Development Programme (Brasilia, 2005-)
• the Netzwerk Grundeinkommen (Berlin, 2005-)
Main stays abroad
• Oxford University, Sub-faculty of Philosophy (1974-76, graduate student);
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Soziologie (1976-77, Gasthörer);
• University of California Berkeley, Departments of Sociology and Economics (1977-78, post-doctoral fellow);
• Oxford University, Sub-faculty of Philosophy (1978-80, graduate student);
• University of Manchester, Department of Economics (Spring-Summer 1983, visiting fellow);
• Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vakgroep Politieke Ekonomie (Spring-Summer 1985, visiting lecturer);
• Centro Latino-Americano de Economia Humana, Montevideo, Uruguay (Autumn 1988, visiting lecturer)
• University of Wisconsin Madison, Centre for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change (Spring 1990, visiting lecturer)
• European University Institute (Florence), Department of social and political sciences (1990-91, Jean Monnet Fellow)
• Università di Siena, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza e di Scienze Economiche e Bancarie (Spring 1992, Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies)
• Université du Québec à Montréal, Département de philosophie (Spring 1993, visiting professor)
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Marxism-Leninism (Spring 1993, visiting professor)
• Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Politics and Sociology (Summer 1993, visiting professor)
• University of Bristol, Department of Philosophy (Spring 1994, Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor)
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Philosophy (July 1994, visiting professor)
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy (December 1994, visiting professor)
• University of Maine Orono, Department of Philosophy (April 1996, visiting philosophy professor)
• Yale University, Ethics, Politics and Economics Programme (Spring 1998, Olmsted Visiting Professor)
• All Souls College, Oxford (1997-1998, Visiting Fellow)
• Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (July 2000, Visiting Professor)
• Facultés catholiques de Kinshasa, Congo (March-April 2001, Visiting Professor)
• Institut d’études politiques, Paris (March-April 2002, Visiting Professor)
• Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (May 2004, Visiting Proofessor)
• Université d’Aix-Marseille (June 2004, Visiting Professor)
• Harvard University, Department of Philosophy (Springs 2005 and 2006, Visiting Professor)
Prizes and distinctions
• Laureate of the Francqui Prize (2001).
• Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences: 1998-
• Member of the Institut international de philosophie: 1999-
• Fellow of the British Academy : 2006-
• Member of the Académie royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique: 2007-
• First Prize for German, Brussels Chamber of Commerce, 1969
• Laureate of the Concours des bourses de voyage, Belgian Ministry for Education, 1974
• Laureate of the essay competition « Agora-Travail » , Fondation Roi Baudouin, 1984
• Florey European Scholar, the Queen’s College, Oxford, 1974-76
• Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 1990-91
• Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies, Università degli Studi di Siena, 1992
• Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, Bristol University, 1994
• Holder of the Francqui Chair, Faculty of Letters, Universiteit Antwerpen, 1997
• Visiting Fellow, All Souls College , Oxford, 1997-98
• Olmsted Visiting Professor in Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University, 1998
• Holder of the Francqui Chair, Facultés universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels), 1999
• Holder of the Francqui Chair, Institute of European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2004
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
As author:
• Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences. An Emerging Paradigm, Totowa, NJ, Rowman & Littlefield ("Philosophy & Society") & London, Tavistock, 1981, xvi + 255 p.
• Le Modèle économique et ses rivaux. Introduction à la pratique de l'épistémologie des sciences sociales, Genève & Paris, Droz, 1990, 243 p.
• Qu'est-ce qu'une société juste? Introduction à la pratique de la philosophie politique, Paris, Le Seuil ("La Couleur des idées"), 1991, 316 p.
• Argentinian edition: Buenos Aires, Nueva Vision ("Colección Diagonal"), 1992, 256 p.
• Spanish edition: Barcelona, Ariel ("Ciencia Politica"), 1993, 252 p.
• Italian edition: Florence, Ponte alle Grazie ("Saggi"), 1995, 346 p.
• Portuguese edition: São Paulo, Atica, 1997, 332 p.
• Marxism Recycled, Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press ("Studies in Marxism and Social Theory"), 1993, x + 252 p.
• Real Freedom for All. What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?, Oxford & New York, Clarendon Press ("Studies in Political Theory"), 1995, xii + 336 p., Oxford paperback, 1997.
• Spanish edition: Barcelona, Paidos ("Estado y Sociedad"), 1996, 368p.
• Japanese edition : Tokyo, Keiso Shobo, 2007, forthcoming.
• Sauver la solidarité, Paris: Editions du Cerf ("Humanités"), 1995, 104 p.
• Expanded Dutch edition: Leuven & Apeldoorn, Garant, 1996, 140 p.
• Refonder la solidarité, Paris: Editions du Cerf ("Humanités"), 1996, 120 p.
• Ethique économique et sociale, Paris: La Découverte ("Repères"), 2000, 2nd ed. 2003, 124p. (with C. Arnsperger).
• Spanish edition : Barcelona, Paidos (« Estado y Sociedad »), 2002, 150p.
• Italian edition : Bologna, Il Mulino (« Intersezioni »), 2003, 138p.
• Brazilian edition : Sao Paulo, Ediçoes Loyola, 2003, 142p.
• Portuguese edition : Porto, Afrontamento (« Histórias & ideias »), 2004, 111p.
• Algerian edition : Alger, Casbah Editions (« Sciences sociales »), 2004, 123p.
• What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch ?, Boston : Beacon Press (« New Democracy Forum »), with a preface by R. Solow and comments by B. Barry, E.S. Phelps, E. Rothschild, H.A. Simon and others, edited by J. Cohen & J. Rogers.
• Expanded Slovenian edition : Zalozba Krtina, Ljubljana, 2004, 176p.
• Hacia una concepción de la justicia social global, Medellín : Fundación Confiar, 2002, 148p.
• L’allocation universelle, Paris: La Découverte ("Repères"), 2005, 124p. (with Y. Vanderborght).
• German edition : Frankfurt, Campus, 2005, 168p.
• Brazilian edition : Rio de Janeiro, Civilizaçao Brasileira, 2006,192p.
• Spanish edition : Barcelona, Paidos, 2006.
• Italian edition : Milano, EGEA, forthcoming.
• Redesigning Distribution, London : Verso (« Real Utopias »), 2005, 320p. (with Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, edited by Erik O. Wright).
• Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford & New York, Clarendon Press ("Studies in Political Theory"), in progress.
• A Basic Income for All (expanded English edition of L’Allocation universelle, Cambridge (Mass) : Harvard University Press, in progress (with Y. Vanderborght).
As editor:
•Néolibéralismes , special issue of La Revue Nouvelle (Brussels), March 1984 (with A. Carton).
•Fondements d'une théorie de la justice. Essais critiques sur la philosophie politique de John Rawls , Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters & Paris: Vrin, 1984 (with J. Ladrière).
•L'Allocation universelle. Une idée pour vivre autrement , special issue of La Revue Nouvelle (Brussels), April 1985 (with P.M. Boulanger and P. Defeyt).
• Repenser l'avenir des sociétés industrielles , special issue of Revue Philosophique de Louvain 89, February 1991 (with A. Berten & J.M. Chaumont).
• La Pensée écologiste. Essai d'inventaire à l'usage de ceux qui la pratiquent comme de ceux qui la craignent , Bruxelles: Deboeck-Université, 1991 (with F. De Roose).
• Les Limites de l'inéluctable. Penser la liberté au seuil du troisième millénaire , Bruxelles: Deboeck-Université, 1991 (with J.M. Chaumont).
• Arguing for Basic Income. Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform, London & New York: Verso, 1992.
• Ni ghetto ni tour d'ivoire. L'éthique économique et sociale aujourd'hui, Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia, 1993.
• Repenser la solidarité , special issue of La Revue Nouvelle (Brussels) 5-6, May-June 1997.
• Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity, Bruxelles: Deboeck-Université (« Bibliothèque scientifique Francqui »), 2004.
As author of lead piece and/or reply :
• A Capitalist Road to Communism, special issue of Theory & Society, 15 (5), 1986 [edited by Rod Aya and Bart Tromp, with lead piece and reply by Robert J. vander Veen and Philippe Van Parijs].
• Spanish translation : Una via capitalista al comunismo, special issue of Zona Abierta 46/47, January-June 1988.
• Basic Income ? A Symposium on Philippe Van Parijs’s Real Freedom for All, special issue of Analyse und Kritik 22 (2), 2000 (edited by Angelika Krebs)
• Real Libertarianism Assessed. Political Theory after Van Parijs [edited by Andrew Reeve & Andrew Williams, with a reply by P. Van Parijs], Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• A Capitalist Road to Communism : A Retrospective, dossier in Basic Income Studies 1(1), 2006 [edited by Jurgen De Wispelaere and Karl Widerquist, with lead piece and reply by Robert J. vander Veen and Philippe Van Parijs].