Social justice

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches social justice through money, which he refuses to demonise. He starts from the young Marx of the 1844 Manuscripts, who quotes Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, and concludes that money is only a mediation: what decides is its distribution, that is, social justice1. In 2020 he draws from this a thesis on Pascal's diversion: it is good to forget one's finitude, provided that every citizen has the same material means of forgetting. This diversion is not culpable if it goes together with social justice, and here he draws on Rousseau and on Clouscard's two classes2. In 2022, starting from a question from the audience, he links it to security, which he holds to be the first of freedoms. For him the demand for social justice is a demand for security extended to the whole social body: food, health, the state of hospitals34. Against Bernard Bourgeois, who puts freedom before equality, he argues that without equality freedom becomes an empty, abstract form4.

1. 1Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019
2. 2#9 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 May 2020
3. 3#15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions23 Jun 2022
4. 4La sécurité : Est-ce le conservatisme ou la Révolution ? - Dominique Pagani12 Jul 2022

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