Mich: Limitarianism and Intergenerational Justice

Manuel Valente (Hoover Chair, UCLouvain)

As a novel view in distributive justice, limitarianism claims that it is morally impermissible to be rich. Recent debates on limitarianism focus on what the account has to offer as a non-ideal doctrine of justice between contemporaries. Yet there is, or so I will suggest, a diachronic element to the idea of having too much. In this presentation, I discuss whether (and how) this element ought to extend the moral implications of limitarianism to the way contemporaries relate with both their future selves and future birth cohorts.