Abstract

The theoretical foundation supporting the establishment of a basic income scheme is not a matter to be dealt only by scholars specializing in capitalism or in the crisis of the welfare State. Spinoza’s philosophy, with its emphasis on agency and empowerment, helps us understand the wider stakes of this issue : it allows us to promote basic guaranteed income as an adaptation to the most recent social transformations , and as a remuneration of forms of activity that go beyond the usual narrow definitions of productivity