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Necessary Goods
Our Responsibilities to Meet Others Needs
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1998
Summary
Do any needs defensibly make claims on anyone? If so, which needs and whose needs can defensibly do this? What are the grounds for our responsibilities to meet others' needs, when we have such responsibilities? The distinguished contributors to this volume consider these questions as they evaluate the moral force of needs. They approach questions of obligation and moral importance from a variety of different theoretical perspectives, including contractarian, Kantian, Aristotelian, rights-based, egalitarian, liberal, and libertarian perspectives. Much contemporary discourse about moral and political matters employs the language of needs; Necessary Goods is an important book for philosophers and political theorists tackling the ever-present problem of our responsibilities towards others. Contributors: John Baker, David Braybrooke, Gillian Brock, David Copp, Len Doyal, Harry Frankfurt, Robert Goodin, Charles Jones, Martha Nussbaum, Onora O'Neill, James Sterba, David Wiggins.
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Copyright year
1998
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-8819-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-0499-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
240
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. Necessity and Desire No access Pages 19 - 32
2. What Is the Force of the Claim That One Needs Something? No access Pages 33 - 56
3. The Concept of Needs, with a Heartwarming Offer of Aid to Utilitarianism No access Pages 57 - 72
4. Vulnerabilities and Responsibilities: An Ethical Defense of the Welfare State No access Pages 73 - 94
5. Rights, Obligations, and Needs No access Pages 95 - 112
6. Equality, Justice, and the Basic Needs No access Pages 113 - 134
7. Aristotelian Social Democracy No access Pages 135 - 156
8. A Theory of Human Need No access Pages 157 - 172
9. Is Redistribution to Help the Needy Unjust? No access Pages 173 - 184
10. From Liberty to Universal Welfare No access Pages 185 - 218
11. Responsibility for Needs No access Pages 219 - 232
