The new issue of the European Journal of Social Sciences features an article by Neha Tayshete, Lecturer at the Centre for Political Theory of the Université libre de Buxelles. Entitled “Can Gandhi’s ethics remedy the self-interest maximisation of existing theories of justice?”, this paper is partly the result of a 2019 research stay at the University of Oxford, funded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation. Dr Tayshete, who at the time was working on her PhD, was welcomed by Prof. Stuart White (Department of Politics and International Relations).
In this article Dr Tayshete “suggests that existing theories of justice” – by John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Gerald Cohen, and Thomas Scanlon – “tacitly involve an ethic of self-interest maximization”, while “Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy asserts that one ought to focus on the process of work rather than on the higher income created by work performance/work productivity”. She then proceeds to analyse the “practical implications” of this difference.
The article can be downloaded via the portal Cairn.info and will be freely accessible on the website of the journal three years after its publication.