ABSTRACT
Philippe Van Parijs believes that justice requires an egalitarian distribution of options and life-prospects across the globe. Specifically, he favors a world in which a universal basic income is distributed to each human being, and the value of that income is set at a level that sustainably maximizes the opportunities of the globally least well off. Any departures from this distribution can be justified only as a result of preferences and choices for which people can properly be held responsible (Van Parijs 1995, p. 228, Van Parijs 2011, p. 88 – hereafter cited parenthetically by page number).
