Friedrich Schillers Sicht auf das bedingungslos­e Grundeinkomme­n
Essay1.382 Words / ~3 pages
Unconditional Basic Income With a warm home and enough to eat a human being is not yet very much, but he must have that warm home and enough to eat if his better nature is to be activated. The pertinent comment/concept for our debate today was not written by a current advocate for an unconditional basic income – it was Friedrich Schiller, a renowned German philosopher and poet in the 18th century. Schiller wrote those lines in one of several letters in which he was thanking Friedrich Christian von Augustenburg for his hospitality – offering Schiller shelter and financial independence in the years from 1791 to 1793 (giving Schiller the opportunity to study the works of Kant.) From a normative perspective – is the UBI a desirable objective within a welfare-state in order to assure Schiller’s fundamental preconditions, triggering…[show more]