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Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others Needs

By Gillian Brock (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
1998
ISBN
0847688186, 9780847688180
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1435120 bytes)
Pages
256\251
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2016-12-29 14:42:25
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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.

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