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Catarina Neves // Why should we be grateful for the welfare state?
February 21, 2024 @ 11:30 - 12:30
CEPS PhD Seminars
Why should we be grateful for the welfare state?
by Catarina Neves (CEPS)
Bio: Catarina Neves is a doctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the Center for Ethics, Politics ans Society, with the thesis “Justifying an Unconditional Basic Income: reciprocity, productive justice and the impact of UBI in the labor market”. She is also invited assistant at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, where she teaches Ethics.
She is co-author of a book on basic income experiments: Basic Income Experiments. A Critical Examination of Their Goals, Contexts, and Methods (2022), published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract: This talk is based on a working idea gratitude and the welfare state. I aim to show that there is a political obligation of gratitude to the welfare state which determines support for the maintenance and enlargement of benefits. To do so, I will first outline the concept of gratitude, what it means, what is it implied when we are grateful and connect it with similar concepts such as reciprocity. I will then argue why we should be concerned with gratitude, exploring concerns from relational equality namely at an institutional-individual level (Voigt, 2018, p. 439; Schemmel, 2012; Shiffrin, 2017). Finally, I will attempt to illustrate some institutional implications of this view, namely the conditions where gratitude is warranted (or not), and what this obligation might require citizens to do.
Link zoom: https://shorturl.at/qQSW0