https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/DSPS6599?type=COREThis is an advanced course in political philosophy, which assumes that students have already been introduced to, and are familiar with, the main debates about distributive justice that took place over the past decades. In particular, the course builds on pre-existing knowledge of the work of John Rawls. Some knowledge of utilitarianism/consequentialism, libertarianism and liberal egalitarianism is highly desirable. We'll take stock of the various relational aspects of justice, and try to reach the best understanding of relational equality and its relationship to distributive justice. To this aim, we shall analyse a number of foundational articles about relational egalitarianism as well as articles concerned, specifically, with the issues self-respect, the role of reactive attitudes in securing the social bases of relational egalitarianism, community, paternalism, domination, stigmatisation, the impersonal value of relational equality and individual responsibility. The course's glaring omission concerns relational egalitarian accounts of democracy like those proposed by Daniel Viehoff and Niko Kolodny; Zoltan Miklosi's course covers them in the context of democratic theory.My primary goal is to give students who plan to write a doctoral thesis in political theory an occasion to think in depth about relational aspects of justice. The course is not suitable for students who lack a robust background in political philosophy done in the analytical tradition.An excellent introduction to contemporary political philosophy, tailored for graduate students, is Will Kymlicka's (2001) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction. An important recent book which, arguably, advances a distinct relational egalitarian account is Niko Kolodny's (2023) The pecking order: Social hierarchy as a philosophical problem.