By James Brusseau

The Wealth Inequality Workshop is a half-hour documentary exploring the philosophy and ethics of wealth distribution.

The question is: How do we begin thinking about wealth inequality? What values initiate the discussion, and how can they be understood?

After reviewing the Rawls/Nozick debate which casts wealth inequality as a tension between equality and freedom, some more speculative and disquieting questions are considered. What is need? Is it possible to feel desire because we have too much instead of too little?

While no perfect answers emerge, the documentary does provide a sense of the full range of approaches to wealth inequality afforded by contemporary philosophy and ethics.

Link: http://wealthinequalityworkshop.org/

[James Brusseau teaches ethics at Pace University.--JW]