In recent decades, political philosophers have divided about how to conceive of a society of equals: whether to put the emphasis on distributional concerns or on the nature of relations between people. Contemporary ideas of relational equality revise ideas, especially from R.H. Tawney from almost 100 years ago. Professor Jonathan Wolff will explore how ideas of relational equality have developed from those times.
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Speaker
Jonathan Wolff (FBA) is the President of The Royal Institute of Philosophy and Emeritus Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He has published many papers and books in political philosophy, focusing particularly on questions of inequality and the relation between political philosophy and public policy.