There has recently been an explosion of writing on the nature of solidarity, but few have considered whether and why acting in solidarity with others is good. In this lecture, I will argue that solidarity, of course, is instrumentally valuable: it helps us to achieve ends that we otherwise would not have been able to achieve. But it is also non-instrumentally valuable, or good-in-itself. The lecture will seek to explain why and how, and explore what follows for the reasons we have to act in solidarity with others.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Sangiovanni ist Professor für Philosophie am King´s College London