Are Capitalism and Social Justice Compatible?

A Hamilton Forum Counterpoint Webinar

Pablo Gilabert is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). His areas of specialization are ethics and social and political philosophy. Within these areas, he focuses on social justice, human rights, and the role of the concept of feasibility in moral and political reasoning. His interests also include topics in global justice, distributive justice, democratic theory, critical theory, Kant’s practical philosophy, Marxism and socialism, and the history of moral and political philosophy. He is author of From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford) and Human Dignity and Human Rights (Oxford).

John Tomasi is the Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Brown University, where he has twice been awarded University prizes for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is the founding director of the Political Theory Project, an independent research center at Brown that supports scholarship and encourages political dialogue on campus. Tomasi received his B.A. from Colby College and did his graduate work in political philosophy at the University of Arizona (M.A.) and Oxford University (B.Phil., D.Phil.). He has held positions at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, the Department of Philosophy at Stanford, and the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Tomasi is the author of Liberalism Beyond Justice (Princeton) and Free Market Fairness (Princeton).

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