Necessary Goods Our Responsibilities to Meet Others Needs

by Brock, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780847688197
• ISBN10: 0847688194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Necessity and Desire	p. 19
What Is the Force of the Claim That One Needs Something?	p. 33
The Concept of Needs, with a Heartwarming Offer of Aid to Utilitarianism	p. 57
Vulnerabilities and Responsibilities: An Ethical Defense of the Welfare State	p. 73
Rights, Obligations, and Needs	p. 95
Equality, Justice, and the Basic Needs	p. 113
Aristotelian Social Democracy	p. 135
A Theory of Human Need	p. 157
Is Redistribution to Help the Needy Unjust?	p. 173
From Liberty to Universal Welfare	p. 185
Responsibility for Needs	p. 219
Index	p. 233
About the Contributors	p. 237
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