Working Oneself Up and Universal Basic Income

Working Oneself Up and Universal Basic Income

Kantian Review Abstract

I respond to a challenge raised by Jordan Pascoe: Kant’s conception of obtaining full citizenship through working oneself up necessarily condemns some people to passive citizenship. I argue that we should not focus on work to establish universal full citizenship. Rather, a Universal Basic Income, an income paid regularly to everyone and without conditions, can secure everyone’s full citizenship. Moreover, I argue that such a scheme is more Kantian in nature than hitherto assumed. Keywords

citizenship work Universal Basic Income Type Author Meets Critic Information DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415424000153 [Opens in a new window] Creative Commons This is […]

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