Kevin Vallier — Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part I: Normative Arguments

First installment in a series of five.

I will divide Piketty’s normative arguments into two types: evaluative and prescriptive. Normative arguments are evaluative when they offer a moral assessment of some phenomenon, event or behavior, whereas normative arguments are prescriptive when they tell us how we should morally respond to certain (morally defective or sub-optimal) phenomena, events or behaviors. I believe Piketty has four evaluative arguments that roughly correspond four prescriptive arguments. He has other arguments as well, but I’m going to focus on these eight in my series. Here’s my list.

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Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part I: Normative Arguments
Kevin Vallier | Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University
(h/t Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution)