Copyright

Matthias Kramm and Ingrid Robeyns

Published On

2024-02-19

Page Range

pp. 69–102

Language

  • Spanish

Print Length

34 pages

3. Los límites a la riqueza en la historia de la filosofía occidental

En la filosofía política contemporánea, se ha propuesto recientemente que deberían ponerse límites superiores a la adquisición individual de riqueza. En este artículo, discutimos los argumentos propuestos por escritores canónicos en la historia de la filosofía de la economía y la filosofía política sobre ideas que podrían considerarse prototipos del limitarismo. En las discusiones contemporáneas, se ha hecho una distinción entre el limitarismo intrínseco y no intrínseco, conforme a la cual se ha puesto en duda que el primero pueda justificarse en las sociedades pluralistas actuales. Encontramos tesis o justificaciones protolimitaristas en cuatro ámbitos morales: la psicología moral, el razonamiento moral, la ética de la virtud y la moral política. Mientras que en nuestro contexto actual, la perspectiva de que debería haber límites superiores a la riqueza podría sonar demasiado radical, mostramos que, a lo largo de la historia, muchos filósofos influyentes sostuvieron tesis limitaristas o protolimitaristas, incluyendo muchos argumentos intrínsecos a favor del limitarismo de la riqueza. Concluimos el artículo esbozando las implicaciones de esas perspectivas históricas para las discusiones sistemáticas contemporáneas sobre el limitarismo.

Contributors

Matthias Kramm

(author)
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group at Wageningen University & Research

Matthias Kramm is a postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. In his research, he is interested in how philosophical discourses can be applied to political, economic and environmental problems. He focuses in particular on political philosophy, non-Western philosophy and development ethics. He has published in CRISPP, the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Global Ethics, among other places.

Ingrid Robeyns

(author)
Chair in Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University

Ingrid Robeyns holds the chair in Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University. She received her PhD dissertation from Cambridge University in 2003 and has since been publishing widely on questions of distributive justice, inequalities, applied ethics, and methodological considerations. She served as the first Director of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy, as the former director of Utrecht University’s Ethics Institute, and as the eighth president of the Human Development and Capability Association. She has co-edited two edited volumes and three special journal issues, and has previously published the book Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice (2017, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0130) with Open Book Publishers. She currently has a contract with Allen Lane (UK) and Astra House (USA) for a trade book on limitarianism (with translation rights sold to seven other publishers), which is scheduled to appear in the winter of 2023–2024.