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Can There be Relational Equality Across Generations? Or at All?
Relational egalitarianism, the view that social equality is fundamentally about equal relationships, has a problem addressing intergenerational...
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The Virtues of Relational Equality at Work
How important is it for managers to have the “nice” virtues of modesty, civility, and humility? While recent scholarship has tended to focus on the...
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From relational equality to personal responsibility
According to relational egalitarians, equality is not primarily about the distribution of some good but about people relating to one another as...
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Does Political Equality Require Equal Power? A Pluralist Account
In this paper, I criticize two views on how political equality is related to equally distributed political power, and I offer a novel, pluralist...
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The relational wrong of Poverty
In this paper I explore elements from Kant’s philosophy of right to develop a relational account of the wrong of poverty. Poverty is a relational...
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Mutual Service as the Relational Value of Democracy
In recent years the view that the non-instrumental value of democracy is a relational value, particularly relational equality, gained prominence. In...
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Relational Egalitarianism and Intergenerational Justice: Reply to Sommers
It is often argued that relational egalitarianism has a fundamental problem with intergenerational justice when compared to other theories of justice...
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Relational Liberalism Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World
This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by...
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Relational Sufficientarianism and Frankfurt’s Objections to Equality
This article presents two rejoinders to Frankfurt’s arguments against egalitarianism. In develo** the first, I introduce a novel relational view of...
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Can Democratic Equality Justify Capitalism?
Jeppe von Platz has recently argued that welfare-state capitalism can be justified by a theory of democratic equality, challenging John Rawls’s...
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Proportionality without Inequality: Defending Lifetime Political Equality through Storable Votes
Political egalitarians tend to defend equal distributions of voting power at specific times, as in ‘one election, one vote’. Appealing as it is, the...
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Metz on Enhancement: A Relational Critique
Thaddeus Metz’s groundbreaking book A Relational Moral Theory provides a sophisticated moral theory hailing from the Global South. In this book, one...
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Navigating the Landscape of Digital Twins in Medicine: A Relational Bioethical Inquiry
This perspective article explores the use of digital twins (DTs) in medicine, highlighting its capacity to simulate risks and personalize treatments...
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Positional Goods and Social Equality: Examining the Convergence Thesis
Several philosophers argue for the ‘convergence thesis’ for positional goods: prioritarians, sufficientarians, and egalitarians may converge on...
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Relational Egalitarianism and Emergent Social Inequalities
This paper identifies a challenge for liberal relational egalitarians—namely, how to respond to the prospect of emergent inequalities of power,...
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Metz’s Heterochthonous Relational Moral Theory and Business Ethics
One of the practical ethical areas that Thaddeus Metz applied his Relational Moral Theory (RMT) to is business ethics. In this important area of...
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Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms
Many popular artificial intelligence (AI) ethics frameworks center the principle of autonomy as necessary in order to mitigate the harms that might...
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Relational Conceptions of Retribution
In this chapter, Dahan Katz defends relational conceptions of retribution and desert. She clarifies the ways in which such relational conceptions...
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The Golden Rule, Humanity, and Equality: Shu and Ren in Confucius’ Teachings and Beyond
This essay explores the correlation between shu 恕 and ren 仁 in Confucius’ teachings and its broader implications concerning the role of the golden...
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Food Ethics as Relational Ethics
This chapter reviews and discusses the problems that an ethics of eating and drinking has to address. First, it shows that such form of ethics falls...